Reconstruction:Proto-Samoyedic/më

This Proto-Samoyedic 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-Samoyedic

Etymology

Likely from Proto-Uralic *mi.^[1]

Pronoun

*më^[2]

what

Descendants

Nganasan: маа (maa)^[3]
Enets:
- Tundra Enets: мииʼ (miiʔ)^[4]
Proto-Selkup: *mi̮ (“something”)^[5]
- Northern Selkup: мы (my)^[6]
- Southern Selkup:
  - Narym: мы (my), мы̄ (mȳ)^[7]
  - Upper Ob: ма (ma), му (mu)^[8]
Kamassian: мо (mo), моʼ (moʔ, “why”)^[9]
- ⇒ Koibal: мола (mola, “why”)^[10]

References

^ Entry #581 in Uralonet, online Uralic etymological database of the Hungarian Research Centre for Linguistics.
^ Janhunen, Juha. 1977. Samojedischer Wortschatz: Gemeinsamojedische Etymologien ('Samoyedic Vocabulary: Common Samoyedic Etymologies'). Castreanianumin toimitteita 17. Helsinki: Suomalais-Ugrilainen Seura. →ISBN.
^ N. T. Kosterkina, A. C. Momde, T. Y. Zhdanova (2001) Словарь нганасанско-русский и русско-нганасанский, St. Petersburg: Просвещение, →ISBN, page 92
^ Olesya Khanina, Andrey Shluinsky (2023) Forest and Tundra Enets‎^[1], →DOI, →ISBN, page 796
^ T. Janurik (2023) “A protoszölkup nyelvállapot és fejleményei. Elektronikus kézirat.”, in Szamojéd Tudástár‎^[2] (in Hungarian), page 26
^ O. A. Kazakevich, Ye. M. Budyanskaya (2010) Диалектологический словарь селькупского языка (северное наречие) [Dialectological dictionary of the Selkup language (Northern continuum)], Yekaterinburg: Institute of Philology of the Siberian Branch of the RAS; Баско, →ISBN, page 78 of 368
^ I. A. Korobeynikova (2020) Родное слово [Native word], Tomsk: Аграф-Пресс; Вайар, →ISBN, page 77 of 240
^ G. Yu. Kostyuchenko (2023) Тюйкуй Йэжиссан – Селькупский словарь для остяков Молчановского района [Tjuykuy Yezhissan – Selkup dictionary for Molchanovo district Selkup people], Molchanovo, page 42 of 109
^ Donner, Kai R. (1944) Kamassisches Wörterbuch nebst Sprachproben und Hauptzügen der Grammatik‎^[3], Helsinki: Suomalais-Ugrilainen Seura, page 40
^ T. Janurik (2021) Kojbál szótár: a publikált szójegyzékek egyesített szótára.‎^[4] (in Hungarian), Székesfehérvár, pages 18, 85

[1] Entry #581 in Uralonet, online Uralic etymological database of the Hungarian Research Centre for Linguistics.

[2] Janhunen, Juha. 1977. Samojedischer Wortschatz: Gemeinsamojedische Etymologien ('Samoyedic Vocabulary: Common Samoyedic Etymologies'). Castreanianumin toimitteita 17. Helsinki: Suomalais-Ugrilainen Seura. →ISBN.

[3] N. T. Kosterkina, A. C. Momde, T. Y. Zhdanova (2001) Словарь нганасанско-русский и русско-нганасанский, St. Petersburg: Просвещение, →ISBN, page 92

[4] Olesya Khanina, Andrey Shluinsky (2023) Forest and Tundra Enets‎^[1], →DOI, →ISBN, page 796

[5] T. Janurik (2023) “A protoszölkup nyelvállapot és fejleményei. Elektronikus kézirat.”, in Szamojéd Tudástár‎^[2] (in Hungarian), page 26

[6] O. A. Kazakevich, Ye. M. Budyanskaya (2010) Диалектологический словарь селькупского языка (северное наречие) [Dialectological dictionary of the Selkup language (Northern continuum)], Yekaterinburg: Institute of Philology of the Siberian Branch of the RAS; Баско, →ISBN, page 78 of 368

[7] I. A. Korobeynikova (2020) Родное слово [Native word], Tomsk: Аграф-Пресс; Вайар, →ISBN, page 77 of 240

[8] G. Yu. Kostyuchenko (2023) Тюйкуй Йэжиссан – Селькупский словарь для остяков Молчановского района [Tjuykuy Yezhissan – Selkup dictionary for Molchanovo district Selkup people], Molchanovo, page 42 of 109

[9] Donner, Kai R. (1944) Kamassisches Wörterbuch nebst Sprachproben und Hauptzügen der Grammatik‎^[3], Helsinki: Suomalais-Ugrilainen Seura, page 40

[10] T. Janurik (2021) Kojbál szótár: a publikált szójegyzékek egyesített szótára.‎^[4] (in Hungarian), Székesfehérvár, pages 18, 85

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