Reconstruction:Proto-Uralic/jäwrä

Etymology
Probably a borrowing either from (compare Lithuanian ), or from earlier. Found only within the traditional Finno-Volgaic group. The word may have replaced, reflected in the more Eastern languages.

Reconstruction
Rahkonen (2011) suggests that several hydronyms in central Russia along the upper Volga and beginning with the formants Яхр-, Ягр- or ending with -хра, -хро (e.g. Яхрома, Ягренево; see Ahlqvist (2006) for a survey) point to a more original form or, loaned already before the loss of the laryngeal from the Indo-European original. No explicit evidence for such a form is found in the direct descendants, however.

Noun

 * 1)  lake

Descendants

 * Mari: