Reconstruction:Proto-Uralic/koje

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 1

Noun

*koje

  1. male

Derived terms

  • *kojema (“male human”)
  • *kojera (“male animal”)
  • *kojeśɜ (“twenty”)

Descendants

  • ? Samoyedic:
    • Tundra Nenets: [script needed] (xājūpā, “to be married”) (of a woman)
  • Mansi: *kuj
  • Khanty:
    • Eastern Khanty: ку (ku)
    • Northern Khanty: хой (hoj)
  • ? Mordvinic: (from *koj-śe)
  • Proto-Samic: *kuojë (“husband”)
    • Skolt Sami: kuõjj
    • Akkala Sami: [Term?] (“kujj, kuj”)
    • Kildin Sami: кӯйй (kūjj)
    • Ter Sami: кыйй (kïjj)

Coordinate terms

  • *näjɜ (“woman”)

Etymology 2

Likely akin to *kaja.

Noun

*koje

  1. dawn
Descendants
  • Ugric:
    • Hungarian: hajnal (or from *kaja)
    • Proto-Khanty: *kotǝl (see there for further descendants)
    • Proto-Mansi: *kātǝl
  • Permic
  • Proto-Finnic: *koi (see there for further descendants)

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