Reconstruction:Proto-Uralic/were

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

Reconstruction

In some sources also transcribed *weri. UEW reconstructs (in particular due to the Permic reflexes) *wire. The Mansi forms with ɣ descend from a suffixed *wer-kä, with regular metathesis of the liquid-velar consonant cluster.

Etymology

Found only within the traditional Finno-Ugric languages; contrast Proto-Samoyedic *këm. Neither word can be explicitly shown to be an innovation, however.

Noun

*were

1. blood

Descendants

• Ugric:
  • Hungarian: vér
  • Mansi:
    • Northern Mansi: вы̄гыр (wȳgyr) (Sosva), выйыр (wyjyr) (Upper Lozva)
    • Southern Mansi: (wür)
  • Proto-Khanty: *wir
    • Northern Khanty: вўр (wŭr) (Kazym), вур (wur) (Shuryshkar)
    • Eastern Khanty: вәр (wər) (Surgut), вӛр (wjər) (Vakh), вяр (wjar) (Vasyugan)
• Proto-Permic: *vir (see there for further descendants)
• Proto-Mari: *wü̆r (see there for further descendants)
• Proto-Mordvinic: *ver
  • Erzya: верь (veŕ)
  • Moksha: вер (ver)
• Proto-Samic: *vërë (see there for further descendants)
• Proto-Finnic: *veri (see there for further descendants)

References

• Rédei, Károly (1986–88) Uralisches etymologisches Wörterbuch [Uralic Etymological Dictionary] (in German), Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó
• Sammallahti, Pekka (1988) “Historical Phonology of the Uralic Languages”, in Denis, Sinor, editor, The Uralic Languages: Description, History and Foreign Influences, Leiden: E. J. Brill, →ISBN, pages 478-554

External links

• Entry #1152 in Uralonet, online Uralic etymological database of the Hungarian Research Centre for Linguistics.