Reconstruction:Proto-Uralic/minä

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.

Sometimes compared to Proto-Yukaghir *mət (compare Southern Yukaghir мэт (met)) and Proto-Indo-European *h₁mene (genitive singular of *éǵh₂).

*minä (plural *me)

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• Proto-Samoyedic: *məntä
  • Nenets:
    • Tundra Nenets: мань (mań)
    • Forest Nenets: мань (manʹ)
  • Nganasan: мәнә (mənə)
  • Selkup:
    • Southern Selkup:
      • Ket: ман (man)
      • Narym: мат (mat)
  • Kamassian: ман (man)
  • Koibal: мон (mon)
• Ugric:
  • Mansi:
    • Northern Mansi: ам (am)
    • Southern Mansi: (äm)
  • Hungarian: én
• Proto-Permic: *mɛn (see there for further descendants)
• Proto-Mari: *mĭńə (see there for further descendants)
• Proto-Mordvinic: *mon (see there for further descendants)
• Proto-Samic: *monë (see there for further descendants)
• Proto-Finnic: *minä (see there for further descendants)

• Entry #576 in Uralonet, online Uralic etymological database of the Hungarian Research Centre for Linguistics.