Reconstruction:Proto-Uralic/śeppä

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

The word can only be reliably reconstructed to Finno-Samic/Western Uralic. Hungarian szép is not a certain descendant due to the semantic gap, and an alternative Turkic etymology for it has also been proposed.^[1]

Adjective

*śeppä

skilled

Descendants

Ugric:
- Hungarian: szép
Proto-Samic: *čeappē (see there for further descendants)
Proto-Finnic: *seppä (see there for further descendants)

References

^ Junttila, Santeri, Kallio, Petri, Holopainen, Sampsa, Kuokkala, Juha, Pystynen, Juho, editors (2020–), “seppä”, in Suomen vanhimman sanaston etymologinen verkkosanakirja‎^[1] (in Finnish)