Reconstruction:Proto-Uralic/koje

This Proto-Uralic 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.

*koje

1. male

• *kojema (“male human”)
• *kojera (“male animal”)
• *kojeśɜ (“twenty”)

• ? Samoyedic:
  • Tundra Nenets: (xājūpā, “to be married”) (of a woman)
• Mansi: *kuj
  • Northern Mansi: хуй (huj)
• Khanty:
  • Eastern Khanty: ку (ku)
  • Northern Khanty: хой (hoj)
• ? Mordvinic: (from *koj-śe)
  • ? Erzya: комсь (komś, “twenty”)
  • ? Moksha: комсь (komś, “twenty”)
• Proto-Samic: *kuojë (“husband”)
  • Skolt Sami: kuõjj
  • Akkala Sami: (“kujj, kuj”)
  • Kildin Sami: кӯйй (kūjj)
  • Ter Sami: кыйй (kïjj)

• *näjɜ (“woman”)

Likely akin to *kaja-.

*koje

1. dawn

• Ugric:
  • Hungarian: hajnal
  • Khanty:

    Northern Khanty: хăтǝԓ (hătǝł) (Kazym)

    Eastern Khanty: ӄӑтәԓ (ḳătəł) (Surgut)

  • Mansi:

    Northern Mansi: хо̄тал (hōtal)

• Permic
  • Komi-Permyak: кыа (kya)
  • Komi-Zyrian: кыа (kya)
• Proto-Finnic: *koi (see there for further descendants)

• Entry #329 in Uralonet, online Uralic etymological database of the Hungarian Research Centre for Linguistics.
• Entry #330 in Uralonet, online Uralic etymological database of the Hungarian Research Centre for Linguistics.