Reconstruction:Proto-Uralic/śijele

This Proto-Uralic entry contains reconstructed terms and roots. As such, the term(s) in this entry are not directly attested, but are hypothesized to have existed based on comparative evidence.

Proto-Uralic

Reconstruction

Sometimes reconstructed as *śixele.

Noun

*śijele

1. hedgehog

Descendants

• Ugric:
  • Hungarian: sün, sül
  • Mansi:
    • Northern Mansi: соуле (soule)
• Mari:
  • Western Mari: шӱлӹ (šülÿ)
• Proto-Mordvinic: *śejəľ
  • Erzya: сеель (śejeľ)
  • Moksha: сеель (śejeľ)
• Proto-Finnic: *siili (see there for further descendants)

Further reading

• Entry #962 in Uralonet, online Uralic etymological database of the Hungarian Research Centre for Linguistics.