This is a running index to etymologies I have proposed with various publication status. WIP. Many more are to come! :D
Full details (glossing, distribution, any details of argument, etc.) cannot be presented on this page, see my list of publications or other links where available.
Cf. also the Sanat wiki page I occasionally update on Proto-Uralic etymologies newly proposed in literature.
Common abbreviations: PF = Proto-Finnic, PMo = Proto-Mordvinic, PP = Proto-Permic, PS = Proto-Sami, PSmy = Proto-Samoyed, PU = Proto-Uralic.
Either in papers or in dedicated blog articles.
• Finnish seistä, seis! < PF *saisë- < PU *säńćä- 'to stop' (besides *saisa- < *sańća-)
Pystynen 2019: "Seistä". First proposed in a blog post from 2016.
• Finnish tupas < PF *tuppas (+ Mari *tŭpka, Komi tup) < Indo-Iranian *stuHpas
+ English top etc. < Proto-Germanic *tuppaz: borrowed from the above.
Pystynen 2024: "Uralic *tuppas (…)".
Presented also in my talk at the 2022-05 conference "Hansakansan kanssa", to which this is the proceedings.
• Finnish anoa and anastaa < PF *ana- (~ PMo. *ana-)
Passingly in Pystynen 2019: "Seistä".
– However, differently (and probably better) by Aikio 2009, who derives anastaa from Sami.
• Finnish jaksaa ← *jaksV- (of Katz 1987: "Kalajas, enojas: erään johtimen etymologiasta").
Passingly suggested in my 2017 talk "The State of the Finno-Permic Lexicon", still in need of fuller treatment.
• Mordvinic pra- < PU *puďa-
Idea blogged passingly in 2019-11. Junttila 2024: "Ensitavun vokaalin kadosta mordvassa" now defends this etymology in detail.
• Erzya ťerť etc. < PU *tärjä-t
Outlined in Pystynen 2024: "Mordvan murteiden historiaa (…)", in Festschrift Grünthal.
• Mari *tŭp 'back' < LPU *tuppa(s), same as PF *tuppas above
Suggested in passing in Pystynen 2024: "Uralic *tuppas (…)".
• Udmurt kuj < PU *kajwa-w (~ PF *kaivo)
Noted as a formally flawless possibility in Pystynen 2020: "(…) *i in Permic", though regardless weaker than the standard etymology from Tatar.
• Mansi *ëëw- < PU *ojwa
Preferrable to comparison with Khanty *ɔɔɣ-, briefly noted in Pystynen 2023: "Sorsa ja sotka (…)", in Festschrift Saarikivi.
Some etymologies I do not have priority to inventing, but which are not well accepted in the literature and which I have defended, in passing or in more detail.
• Finnish maja < PF *maja < PU *maja (→ *maja-ka 'beaver')
Noted in Pystynen 2023: "Sorsa ja sotka (…)", in Festschrift Saarikivi. Without recognition of the implication as *maja as Proto-Uralic, already in Anttila 2000, Greek and Indo-European Etymology in Action (…).
• Finnish nokka < PF *nokka 'beak' < PU *nokka (> Mansi, Khanty)
Noted in my Master's thesis as being in entirely regular correspondence with the Ob-Ugric cognates, proposed in SSA but which waffles on the conclusion.
• Khanty *maaɣ < PU *majaka
Noted in Pystynen 2023: "Sorsa ja sotka (…)". Present in much early literature yet dismissed in the UEW (and neglected SSA's overview of research history).
I list here some ideas that have appeared in talks or in material circulated among several colleagues, but have yet to appear publicly anywere.
• Moksha moknams < PU *mükkä
Passingly in Pystynen 2020, "(…) *i in Permic", also blogged 2017-01.
Based on a misreading of Steinitz' and Itkonen's rule for PU *ü > PMo *o. Besides a following velar, this requires also an *ə-stem! Metsäranta 2020 argues this is a parallel, originally back-vocalic borrowing from the same II source as *mükkä.
• PSmy *təjkå < PU *tuďka
Blogged (…) and noted in my Proto-Samoyedic database. Proposed also earlier by Pusztay 1992.
Might be preferrable to the usually given loan etymology from Iranian *tajga-, if the reconstruction *təjkå held. However, the correct shape actually seems to be *täkå ~ *takå with no diphthong (probably thus reflecting the expected Middle Iranian shape *tēga- and post-PSmy diffusion).
• Kamass malmi < *maŋmi << PU *wäŋəwV (thus, not *wäŋV?)
Blogged in 2021–04
For a better analysis with the same first step see now Klumpp 2022, "Kamas malmi 'husband of daughter or younger sister'" in Festschrift Salminen.