Reconstruction:Proto-Uralic/tinä

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

Frequently compared with its equivalents in other language families of Eurasia, such as Proto-Indo-European *túh₂, Northern Yukaghir тэт (tet), Proto-Mongolic *či. Most of these comparisons would require an earlier form to be *ti.

Reconstruction

The Samic and Mordvinic reflexes suggest a variant *tun, of unclear origin. In some sources, the Samoyedic forms have also been considered to derive from this. However, according to Janhunen (2013), its inflection indicates an earlier front-vocalic form, implying that only a single variant *tinä is to be reconstructed for Proto-Uralic.

Pronoun

*tinä (plural *te)

1. you, thou

Descendants

• Proto-Samoyedic: *tən (see there for further descendants)
• Ugric:
  • Hungarian: te
• Proto-Permic: *tɛn (see there for further descendants)
• Proto-Mari: *tĭńə (see there for further descendants)
• Proto-Mordvinic: *ton (see there for further descendants)
• Proto-Samic: *tonë (see there for further descendants)
• Proto-Finnic: *cinä (stem *cinu-) (see there for further descendants)

References

• Janhunen, Juha. 2013. "Personal pronouns in core Altaic". In: Robbeets, Martine; Cuyckens, Hubert (eds.) Shared Grammaticalization. With special focus on the Transeurasian languages. John Benjamins.
• Rédei, Károly (1986–88) Uralisches etymologisches Wörterbuch [Uralic Etymological Dictionary] (in German), Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó

External links

• Entry #1083 in Uralonet, online Uralic etymological database of the Hungarian Research Centre for Linguistics.