Reconstruction:Proto-Uralic/mënɜ-

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

Verb

*mënɜ-

1. to say

Descendants

• Proto-Samoyedic: *mån-
  • Nganasan: мунса (munsa)
  • Enets:
    • Forest Enets: мамби (mambi)
    • Tundra Enets: мана (mana)
  • Nenets:
    • Tundra Nenets: манзь (manzʔ)
• Ugric:
  • Hungarian: mond
• ⇒? Proto-Ugric: *mańćɜ
  • ⇒ Old Hungarian: mogyër
    • Hungarian: magyar (“Hungarian”) (see there for further descendants)
  • Mansi:
    • Northern Mansi: ма̄ньси (mānʹsi, “Mansi”)
    • Eastern Mansi: маньсь (manʹsʹ, “Mansi”)
• Mari:
  • Eastern Mari: манаш (manaš)
  • Western Mari: [script needed] (mà·nam)
• Proto-Mordvinic: *mońams~*məńams (“to conjure, divine”)
  • Erzya: мунямс (muńams)
  • Moksha: [script needed] (məńams)
• Proto-Finnic: *manat'ak
  • Finnish: manata (“to curse, damn, invoke, urge”)

References

• Rédei, Károly, and Marianne Sz. Bakró-Nagy. Uralisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch. Vol. 1. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, 1988. Print.
• Lehtiranta, Juhani. Yhteissaamelainen sanasto. Helsinki : Suomalais-ugrilainen Seura, 1989. Print.
• Collinder, Björn. Fenno-Ugric Vocabulary : an Etymological Dictionary of the Uralic Languages. Hamburg : Helmut Buske Verlag, 1977. Print.
• Aikio, Ante. The Saami Loanwords in Finnish and Karelian. Oulu : University of Oulu, 2009. Print.
• Comparative Nenets-Nganasan Multimedia Dictionary
• Lexik des Enzischen/Ents Lexik

External links

• Entry #570 in Uralonet, online Uralic etymological database of the Hungarian Research Centre for Linguistics.