Reconstruction:Proto-Uralic/ime-

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-Turkic *em- (“to suck”), Proto-Yukaghir *iw- (“to suck”), whence Northern Yukaghir иби (ibi), and Proto-Chukotko-Kamchatkan *inmə- (“to swallow”), whence Alutor инмын (inmən).

Verb

*ime-

1. to suck

Descendants

• Proto-Samoyedic: *ńim-
  • Nenets:
    • Tundra Nenets: нимнесь (nyimnyesʹ°)
• Ugric:
  • Hungarian: emik (obsolete)
• >? Proto-Samic: *ńëmëtēk (see there for further descendants)
• Proto-Finnic: *imedäk (see there for further descendants)

Further reading

• Koponen, Eino, Ruppel, Klaas, Aapala, Kirsti, editors (2002–2008), Álgu database: Etymological database of the Saami languages‎^[1], Helsinki: Research Institute for the Languages of Finland
• Entry #148 in Uralonet, online Uralic etymological database of the Hungarian Research Centre for Linguistics.
• Fortescue, Michael (2005) Comparative Chukotko-Kamchatkan dictionary (Trends in Linguistic Documentation; 23), Berlin – New York: de Gruyter, →ISBN.
• Nikolaeva, Irina (2006) A Historical Dictionary of Yukaghir (Trends in Linguistics Documentation; 25), Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter, →ISBN