Proto-Uralic or Proto-Finnic Root List

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Proto-Uralic or Proto-Finnic Root List

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Does anyone know where I can find a list of roots for proto-Uralic and/or proto-Finnic? Ideally not behind a paywall.

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Here (under "Data subpages").
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Sammallahti's paper Historical phonology of the Uralic languages* includes lists of Proto Uralic, Proto Finno Ugric and Proto Finno Permic stems using his reconstruction. It doesn't go into Proto Finnic though.

* Sammallahti, 1988, in ed. Sinor, The Uralic Languages, Brill, Leiden, pp. 478-554

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WeepingElf wrote:Here (under "Data subpages").
I wouldn't say my working notes there count as "root lists", given that they do not provide any reconstructions.

The freshest published list for Proto-Uralic that I'm aware of can be found in a Master's thesis here, though it uses a slightly idiosyncratic reconstruction. (Then again, don't we all.)

Interestingly enough, I don't think anyone's ever assembled a list of Proto-Finnic roots. The closest thing in existence is lists of old inherited vocabulary in Finnish (or, occasionally, Estonian), which obviously enough ends up neglecting Proto-Finnic vocabulary lost in there. That still goes pretty far, though.
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