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.

Proto-Uralic

Etymology

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

Pronoun

*minä (plural *me)

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Descendants

• Proto-Samoyedic: *məntä
  • Nenets:
    • Tundra Nenets: мань (mań)
  • Nganasan: мәнә (mənə)
  • Selkup:
    • Southern Selkup:
      • Ket: ман (man)
      • Narym: мат
  • 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
  • Erzya: мон (mon)
  • Moksha: мон (mon)
• Proto-Samic: *monë (see there for further descendants)
• Proto-Finnic: *minä (see there for further descendants)

Further reading

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