The traditional etymology of the PU *waśke ‘metal, (? copper)’ is great importance for reconstruction Proto-Uralic culture and time disintegration Proto-Uralic. Continuing some older works considering results latest research, this considered as fictitious, breaking up into at least three etymological nests: Finnic-Mordv. *vaśa-kive ‘axe-stone’ (etymology T.-R. Viitso, where *vaśa- denotes ‘axe,...