Reconstruction:Proto-Uralic/muna

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.

The testicular sense is widely attested across the family, and the taboo of it might account for underreporting as well. Some authors (e.g. Zhivlov, 2016) reconstruct this sense back to Proto-Uralic, though most sources make no mention of it. The semantic shift egg > testicle is not, however, unusual (compare the descendants of Proto-Slavic *aje).

*muna

1. egg
2. penis; testicle; testes

• Proto-Samoyedic: *mənå (see there for further descendants)
• Ugric:
  • Hungarian: mony, mogyoró
  • Khanty:
    • Northern Khanty: мон (mon)
  • Mansi:
    • Northern Mansi: мӯӈи (mūňi)
    • Eastern Mansi: монг (mong) (Yukonda), ман (man)
• Proto-Mari: *mŭnə (see there for further descendants)
• Proto-Mordvinic: *mona
  • Erzya: мона (mona)
  • Moksha: мона (mona)
• Proto-Samic: *monē (see there for further descendants)
• Proto-Finnic: *muna (see there for further descendants)

• Entry #561 in Uralonet, online Uralic etymological database of the Hungarian Research Centre for Linguistics.