Reconstruction:Proto-Uralic/kojera

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.

No direct evidence for the 2nd syllable is found, and UEW considers a consonant-stem reconstruction *kojra to be also possible. *o in Samoyedic however suggests derivation from an unsyncopated form (Zhivlov 2014): the expected regular outcome of *kojra would be **kårå or **kåjrå.

From *koje (“man, male”) +‎ *-ra.

*kojera

1. male animal

• Proto-Samoyedic: *korå (“reindeer bull”) (see there for further descendants)
• Ugric:
  • Hungarian: ? here (“testicle; drone”), herél (“to castrate”)
  • Proto-Mansi: *ke̮e̮r (“male animal”)
    • Northern Mansi: ха̄р (hār)
  • Proto-Khanty: *kaar (“reindeer bull”)
    • Eastern Khanty: кар (kar)
    • Northern Khanty: хар (har)
• Proto-Permic: *ku̇r (“male animal”) (see there for further descendants)
• Proto-Finnic: *koira (“male dog”), *koiras (“male”) (see there for further descendants)

• Rédei, Károly (1986–88) Uralisches etymologisches Wörterbuch [Uralic Etymological Dictionary] (in German), Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó
• Zhivlov, Mikhail. 2014. "Studies in Uralic vocalism III". In Journal of Language Relationship 12, pp. 113–148.

• Entry #333 in Uralonet, online Uralic etymological database of the Hungarian Research Centre for Linguistics.