Reconstruction:Proto-Ugric/mańćɜ
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Proto-Ugric
[edit]Etymology 1
[edit]Uncertain.
- The term may may be an Indo-Iranian borrowing, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *mon-. Compare Sanskrit मनुष्य (manuṣyá)).
- Alternatively from Proto-Uralic *mënɜ- (“to say”).
Noun
[edit]*mańćɜ
Descendants
[edit]Etymology 2
[edit]May be ultimately identical to the above etymology, via the concept of family, clan, or phratry and the sense ‘saga, tales of (heroic) deeds, the story of a family’.
Alternative forms
[edit]Noun
[edit]*mańćɜ
Descendants
[edit]- Hungarian: mese (“tale”)
Verb
[edit]*mańćɜ
- tell (a tale, story)
Further reading
[edit]- (etymology 1):
- Entry #1799 in Uralonet, online Uralic etymological database of the Hungarian Research Centre for Linguistics.
- magyar in Gerstner, Károly (ed.). Új magyar etimológiai szótár. (’New Etymological Dictionary of Hungarian’). Beta version. Budapest, MTA Nyelvtudományi Intézet / Magyar Nyelvtudományi Kutatóközpont, 2011–2022. (Research Institute for Linguistics, Hungary). Language abbreviations
- (etymology 2):
- Entry #1800 in Uralonet, online Uralic etymological database of the Hungarian Research Centre for Linguistics.
- mese in Gerstner, Károly (ed.). Új magyar etimológiai szótár. (’New Etymological Dictionary of Hungarian’). Beta version. Budapest, MTA Nyelvtudományi Intézet / Magyar Nyelvtudományi Kutatóközpont, 2011–2022. (Research Institute for Linguistics, Hungary). Language abbreviations