Reconstruction:Proto-Uralic/mi

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 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.

Proto-Uralic

Etymology

A relation has been suggested with Proto-Indo-European *mo- (interrogative stem), whence derived Hittite maši- (“how many”) and Tocharian A mänt (“how”).[1]

Pronoun

*mi

  1. what (interrogative)

Descendants

  • Ugric:
    • Mansi:
      • Northern Mansi: ма̄ныр (mānyr)
      • Eastern Mansi: мятыр (mâtyr)
    • Hungarian: mi
  • Permic
  • Proto-Mordvinic: *me-, *meźə
  • Proto-Samic:
    • Northern Sami: mii
    • Southern Sami: mij
    • Lule Sami: mij
    • Ter Sami: мӣ (mī)
    • Kildin Sami: мӣ (mī)
    • Akkala Sami: мӣ (mī)
  • Proto-Finnic: *mi (see there for further descendants)

References

  1. ^ Michaël Peyrot (2019) “Indo-Uralic, Indo-Anatolian, Indo-Tocharian”, in Alwin Kloekhorst, Tijmen Pronk, editors, The Precursors of Proto-Indo-European: The Indo-Anatolian and Indo-Uralic Hypotheses.‎, Brill, pages 195-199

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