This language page is used as a placeholder partly for Proto-Uralic per se, partly for various (hypothesized) intermediary stages between the 9 undisputed subgroups (Finnic, Saami, Hungarian, Khanty, Mansi, Mari, Mordvinic, Permic, Samoyedic) and Proto-Uralic. Whenever the latter is the case, this is indicated in the Note field of that particular lexeme. This system is used to avoid the intermediary nodes that are not commonly accepted, but often implied in etymological work, such as the Uralisches etymologisches Wörterbuch.