Reconstruction:Proto-Uralic/wäŋew

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

The evidence for the stem-final *-w is scanty, but note the Kamass and Koibal consonant clusters, which are regular reflexes of a Proto-Samoyedic cluster *-ŋw-, perhaps reflecting an old paradigm *wäŋew : *wäŋwe (the latter also explaining the Sámi consonantism). The glide was originally posited due to a common belief that Proto-Uralic words could not contain labial vowels in unstressed syllables, to account for the labial vowels in Finnic and Samoyedic. Compare *kälew, *nataw.

Noun

*wäŋew

1. son-in-law

Descendants

• Proto-Samoyedic: *wiŋü
  • Nganasan: биӈи (biŋi)
  • Enets:
    • Tundra Enets: [script needed] (bii)
  • Nenets:
    • Forest Nenets: вий (ẃīj)
    • Tundra Nenets: ий (yiy°)
  • Selkup:
    • Northern Selkup: [script needed] (kwenä)
  • Mator: [script needed] (миюг)
  • Kamass-Koibal:
    • Kamassian: [script needed] (malmi)
    • Koibal: [script needed] (maŋmə)
• Ugric:
  • Hungarian: vő
  • Khanty:
    • Eastern Khanty: воӈ (woṇ), вөӈ (wøṇ)
    • Southern Khanty: [script needed] (weŋ)
• Proto-Mari: *wiŋə (see there for further descendants)
• Proto-Mordvinic: *oŋ
  • Moksha: ов (ov)
  • Erzya: ов (ov)
• Proto-Finnic: *vävü (see there for further descendants)
  • → ? Samic: *vivë

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
• Tamás, Janurik (2021): Kamassz szótár: a publikált szójegyzékek egyesített szótára [Kamass dictionary: a unified dictionary of published dictionaries] (in Hungarian)

External links

• Entry #1133 in Uralonet, online Uralic etymological database of the Hungarian Research Centre for Linguistics.