Reconstruction:Proto-Uralic/utka

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

Alternatively reconstructed as *ukti, *ukte and *ukta. The term is the most likely origin for a large set of toponyms in and around waterways in Finland, Estonia, and Northern Russia. Rahkonen suggests descent through a Uralic substrate language once spoken around the Upper Volga region.^[1]^[2]

Noun

*utka

Descendants

Proto-Samoyedic: *utə
- Nganasan: ӈутə (ŋutə)^[3]
- Nenets:
  - Forest Nenets: ӈут (ŋut)^[4]
  - Tundra Nenets: ӈуˮ (ŋuq)^[5]
- Proto-Selkup: *watte (see there for further descendants)
Ugric:
- Hungarian: út
- Proto-Khanty: *ɔɣǝt
  - Northern Khanty: өхәт (øhət) (Kazym)
  - Eastern Khanty: оɣәт (oɣət) (Vakh), охат (ohat) (Vasyugan), оәт (oət) (Yugan)
  - Southern Khanty: охәт (ohət) (Konda)
- Proto-Mansi:
  - Eastern Mansi: аэт (aèt)

References

^ Rahkonen, Pauli. Suomen etymologisesti läpinäkymätöntä vesistönimistöä. Virittäjä 1/2013. pp. 10—16. [1]
^ Saarikivi, Janne. On the Uralic substrate toponymy of Arkhangelsk region: problems of research methodology and ethnohistorical interpretation. Onomastica Uralica 4/2007. pp. 45-109. [2]
^ N. T. Kosterkina; A. C. Momde; T. Y. Zhdanova (2001), Словарь нганасанско-русский и русско-нганасанский, St. Petersburg: Просвещение, →ISBN, page 140
^ M. Y. Barmich; I. A. Vello (2002), Словарь ненецко-русский и русско-ненецкий (лесной диалект), Просвещение, →ISBN, page 99
^ N. M. Tereschenko (2005), Словарь ненецко-русский и русско-ненецкий, 3rd edition, Saint Petersburg: Просвещение, →ISBN, page 85

External links

Entry #1096 in Uralonet, online Uralic etymological database of the Hungarian Research Centre for Linguistics.
T. Janurik (2023), “A protoszölkup nyelvállapot és fejleményei. Elektronikus kézirat.”, in Szamojéd Tudástár‎^[3] (in Hungarian), page 18

[1] Rahkonen, Pauli. Suomen etymologisesti läpinäkymätöntä vesistönimistöä. Virittäjä 1/2013. pp. 10—16. [1]

[2] Saarikivi, Janne. On the Uralic substrate toponymy of Arkhangelsk region: problems of research methodology and ethnohistorical interpretation. Onomastica Uralica 4/2007. pp. 45-109. [2]

[3] N. T. Kosterkina; A. C. Momde; T. Y. Zhdanova (2001), Словарь нганасанско-русский и русско-нганасанский, St. Petersburg: Просвещение, →ISBN, page 140

[4] M. Y. Barmich; I. A. Vello (2002), Словарь ненецко-русский и русско-ненецкий (лесной диалект), Просвещение, →ISBN, page 99

[5] N. M. Tereschenko (2005), Словарь ненецко-русский и русско-ненецкий, 3rd edition, Saint Petersburg: Просвещение, →ISBN, page 85

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