Reconstruction:Proto-Samoyedic/emä

This Proto-Samoyedic entry contains reconstructed terms and roots. As such, the term(s) in this entry are not directly attested, but are hypothesized to have existed based on comparative evidence.

Proto-Samoyedic

Alternative reconstructions

(Pre-Nganasan split) *ämä

Etymology

From Proto-Uralic *emä, with an irregular assimilation of the first vowel. The Mator possessed stem may reflect the original form.

Noun

*emä^[1]

mother

Descendants

Nganasan: немы (njemɨ)^[2]
Enets:
- Forest Enets: ԑԑ (ɛɛ)^[3]
Nenets:
- Forest Nenets: немя (nyemya)^[4]
- Tundra Nenets: небя (nyebya)^[5]
Proto-Selkup: *e̮mə^[6]
- Northern Selkup: әмы (əmy)^[7]
- Southern Selkup:
  - Narym: ав (aw)^[8]
  - Upper Ob: ауа (aua), эу (eu), йэу (jeu)^[9]
Mator: ӓмӓ (ämä), имӓ- (imä-) (with possessive suffixes)^[10]

References

^ Janhunen, Juha. 1977. Samojedischer Wortschatz: Gemeinsamojedische Etymologien ('Samoyedic Vocabulary: Common Samoyedic Etymologies'). Castreanianumin toimitteita 17. Helsinki: Suomalais-Ugrilainen Seura. →ISBN.
^ N. T. Kosterkina, A. C. Momde, T. Y. Zhdanova (2001) Словарь нганасанско-русский и русско-нганасанский, St. Petersburg: Просвещение, →ISBN, page 110
^ Olesya Khanina, Andrey Shluinsky (2023) Forest and Tundra Enets‎, →DOI, →ISBN, page 832
^ M. Y. Barmich, I. A. Vello (2002) Словарь ненецко-русский и русско-ненецкий (лесной диалект), Просвещение, →ISBN, page 79
^ N. M. Tereschenko (2005) Словарь ненецко-русский и русско-ненецкий, 3rd edition, Saint Petersburg: Просвещение, →ISBN, page 63
^ T. Janurik (2023) “A protoszölkup nyelvállapot és fejleményei. Elektronikus kézirat.”, in Szamojéd Tudástár‎ (in Hungarian), page 17
^ O. A. Kazakevich, Ye. M. Budyanskaya (2010) Диалектологический словарь селькупского языка (северное наречие) [Dialectological dictionary of the Selkup language (Northern continuum)], Yekaterinburg: Institute of Philology of the Siberian Branch of the RAS; Баско, →ISBN, page 29 of 368
^ I. A. Korobeynikova (2020) Родное слово [Native word], Tomsk: Аграф-Пресс; Вайар, →ISBN, page 40 of 240
^ G. Yu. Kostyuchenko (2023) Тюйкуй Йэжиссан – Селькупский словарь для остяков Молчановского района [Tjuykuy Yezhissan – Selkup dictionary for Molchanovo district Selkup people], Molchanovo, page 9, 105 of 109
^ E. Helimski (1997) N. Beáta, editor, Die Matorische Sprache‎ (in German), Szeged: JATE Finnugor Tanszék, →ISBN, page 209

[1] Janhunen, Juha. 1977. Samojedischer Wortschatz: Gemeinsamojedische Etymologien ('Samoyedic Vocabulary: Common Samoyedic Etymologies'). Castreanianumin toimitteita 17. Helsinki: Suomalais-Ugrilainen Seura. →ISBN.

[2] N. T. Kosterkina, A. C. Momde, T. Y. Zhdanova (2001) Словарь нганасанско-русский и русско-нганасанский, St. Petersburg: Просвещение, →ISBN, page 110

[3] Olesya Khanina, Andrey Shluinsky (2023) Forest and Tundra Enets‎, →DOI, →ISBN, page 832

[4] M. Y. Barmich, I. A. Vello (2002) Словарь ненецко-русский и русско-ненецкий (лесной диалект), Просвещение, →ISBN, page 79

[5] N. M. Tereschenko (2005) Словарь ненецко-русский и русско-ненецкий, 3rd edition, Saint Petersburg: Просвещение, →ISBN, page 63

[6] T. Janurik (2023) “A protoszölkup nyelvállapot és fejleményei. Elektronikus kézirat.”, in Szamojéd Tudástár‎ (in Hungarian), page 17

[7] O. A. Kazakevich, Ye. M. Budyanskaya (2010) Диалектологический словарь селькупского языка (северное наречие) [Dialectological dictionary of the Selkup language (Northern continuum)], Yekaterinburg: Institute of Philology of the Siberian Branch of the RAS; Баско, →ISBN, page 29 of 368

[8] I. A. Korobeynikova (2020) Родное слово [Native word], Tomsk: Аграф-Пресс; Вайар, →ISBN, page 40 of 240

[9] G. Yu. Kostyuchenko (2023) Тюйкуй Йэжиссан – Селькупский словарь для остяков Молчановского района [Tjuykuy Yezhissan – Selkup dictionary for Molchanovo district Selkup people], Molchanovo, page 9, 105 of 109

[10] E. Helimski (1997) N. Beáta, editor, Die Matorische Sprache‎ (in German), Szeged: JATE Finnugor Tanszék, →ISBN, page 209

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