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Reconstruction:Proto-Uralic/me

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

Pronoun

*me (singular *minä)

  1. we

Descendants
  • Samoyedic:
    • Nenets:
      • Tundra Nenets: [script needed] (mańeʔ)
    • Nganasan: [script needed] (mêŋ)
    • Selkup: [script needed] (me)
    • Selkup: [script needed] (miʔ)
    • Koibal: ме (me)
  • Ugric:
    • Mansi: ма̄н (mān) (Northern)
    • Mansi: [script needed] (mäŋ) (Southern)
    • Khanty: [script needed] (mĕŋ)
    • Hungarian: mi
  • Proto-Permic: *mi (see there for further descendants)
  • Mari:
    • Eastern Mari: ме (me)
    • Western Mari: мӓ (mä)
  • Mordvinic:
  • Proto-Samic: *mij
    • Western Samic:
    • Eastern Samic:
  • Proto-Finnic: *mek (see there for further descendants)

Further reading
  • Entry #577 in Uralonet, online Uralic etymological database of the Research Institute for Linguistics, Hungary.
  • S. N. Tereshkin (2002) Йоканьгский диалект саамского языка [Ter dialect of the Sámi language], Российский государственный педагогический Университет имени А.И. Герцена, page 110
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