#kamassian

[mehilaiselokuva]

Proto-uralic word of the day

The word from which the Finnish puu (tree) is probably from:

*puwe

SOME DESCENDANTS:

Tundra Nenets: пя (pya)

Kamassian: пха (pʰa)

Hungarian: fa

Komi-Permyak: пу (pu)

Komi-Zyrian: пу (pu)

Udmurt: пу (pu)

Eastern Mari: пу (pu)

Proto-Finnic: *puu

[uralic-solidarity-blog]

Where I used to wander, my black mountains were left. In my tracks, in my own land, golden grass grew tall. My white mountains disappeared out of sight. I had strength, which I have no more, I had many children, I was left alone. I went astray from my parents, I was left alone. Where I used to fish, my lakes, too, were left, and I may never see them again. My goahti has already decayed, and its bark has shrivelled.

One of the only few known poems of the Kamassian people, whose language went extinct in 1989. Collected from the oldest woman of a Kamassian village by Kai Donner in 1914.