PU trees (WAS: About the Yew1)

Ante Aikio anaikio at mail.student.oulu.fi
Wed Jul 4 04:35:27 UTC 2001


On Thu, 14 Jun 2001, Gordon Brown wrote:

> Ante, can you give us some modern reflexes of these tree names, say in
> Finnish, Estonia, Saami, perhaps others?

PU *sïksi 'siberian pine' > Komi /susï-pu/ (/pu/ 'tree'), Khanty
(Vakh-Vasjugan dialect) /Lïgøl/, Manysi (Pelymka dialect) /tëët/,
Nenets /tideh/ (no cognates in more western Uralic, because the tree only
grows in the speaking area of Samoyedic, Ob-Ugric & Permic)

PU *d´ïxmi 'bird cherry' > Sami (North) /duopma/, (South) /foeme/,
Finnish /tuomi/, Estonian /toom/, Mordvin (Erzya) /l´om/, Manysi
(Pelymka) /l´ëëm/, Selkup (Taz) /c^ëm/, Kamass /lem/ etc.

PU *kaxsi 'spruce' > Sami /guossa/, Finnish /kuusi/, Estonian /kuusk/,
Mordvin /kuz/, Khanty (Vasjugan) /kagøt/, Nenets /xadi/ etc.

PU *koxji 'birch' > Finnish /koivu/, Estonian (South) /kõiv/, Mari /kue/,
Nenets /xo/, Nganasan /küø/ etc.

PU ?*pic´(V)lV or ?*pic´(V)rV 'rowan' > Finnish /pihla-ja/, Estonian
/pihlakas/, Mordvin /piz´ol/, Udmurt /palez´/ (metathetic), Khanty
(Vakh-Vasjugan) /pec´ør/ etc. (the reflexes of this word contain
phonological irregularities).

For more details, please look up the words in the relevant etymological
dictionaries (Uralisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch, Suomen Sanojen
Alkuperä, etc.)

Regards,
Ante Aikio



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