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Reconstruction:Proto-Uralic/nime

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

Within the disputed Indo-Uralic theory, it has been connected with the Indo-European noun *h₁nómn̥.

Similar words meaning "name" can be found in other languages of northern Eurasia, for instance Proto-Yukaghir *ńu:, Proto-Chukotko-Kamchatkan *nənnə, and Proto-Japonic *na.

Noun

*nime

  1. name

Descendants
  • Proto-Samoyedic: *nim
    • Nganasan: ним
    • Enets:
      • Forest Enets:
      • Tundra Enets: [Term?] (ńuʔ)
    • Nenets:
    • Selkup: ним
    • Kamassian: [script needed] (nim)
    • Mator: (3rd person singular possessive) [script needed] (нуммеде)
  • Ugric:
    • Hungarian: név
    • Mansi:
      • Northern: нам (nam)
      • Southern: [script needed] (näm)
    • Khanty: нем (nem)
  • Permic: *ńim
  • Proto-Mari: *lü̆m (see there for further descendants)
  • Proto-Mordvinic:
  • Proto-Samic: *nëmë (see there for further descendants)
  • Proto-Finnic: *nimi (see there for further descendants)

Further reading
  • Rédei, Károly (1986–88) Uralisches etymologisches Wörterbuch [Uralic Etymological Dictionary] (in German), Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó
  • Sammallahti, Pekka (1988), “Historical Phonology of the Uralic Languages”, in Denis, Sinor, editor, The Uralic Languages: Description, History and Foreign Influences, Leiden: E. J. Brill, →ISBN, pages 478-554
  • Entry #597 in Uralonet, online Uralic etymological database of the Research Institute for Linguistics, Hungary.
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