Reconstruction:Proto-Uralic/minä
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Proto-Uralic[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Sometimes compared to Proto-Yukaghir *mət (compare Southern Yukaghir мэт (met)) and Proto-Indo-European *h₁mene (genitive singular of *éǵh₂).
Pronoun[edit]
*minä (plural *me)
Descendants[edit]
- Proto-Samoyedic: *məntä
- Ugric:
- Proto-Permic: *mɛn (see there for further descendants)
- Proto-Mari: *mĭńə (see there for further descendants)
- Proto-Mordvinic: *mon
- Proto-Samic: *monë (see there for further descendants)
- Proto-Finnic: *minä (see there for further descendants)
Further reading[edit]
- Entry #576 in Uralonet, online Uralic etymological database of the Hungarian Research Centre for Linguistics.