Reconstruction:Proto-Uralic/kojera

This Proto-Uralic entry contains reconstructed words 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

Reconstruction

No direct evidence for the 2nd syllable is found, and UEW considers a consonant-stem reconstruction *kojra to be also possible. *o in Samoyedic however suggests derivation from an unsyncopated form (Zhivlov 2014): the expected regular outcome of *kojra would be **kårå or **kåjrå.

Etymology

From *koje (“man, male”) +‎ *-ra.

Noun

*kojera

male animal

Descendants

Samoyedic: *korå (“reindeer bull”) (see there for further descendants)
Ugric:
- Hungarian: ? here (“testicle; drone”), herél (“to castrate”)
- Mansi: *ke̮e̮r "male animal"
  - Northern: ха̄р (hār)
- Khanty: *kaar "reindeer bull"
  - Eastern: кар (kar)
  - Northern: хар (xar)
Permic:
- Komi:
  - Komi-Permyak: кырпон (kyrpon, “male dog”)
  - Komi-Zyrian: кыр (kyr, “male dog”)
Finnic: *koira (“male dog”), *koiras (“male”) (see there for further descendants)

References

Rédei, Károly (1986–88) Uralisches etymologisches Wörterbuch [Uralic Etymological Dictionary] (in German), Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó
Zhivlov, Mikhail. 2014. "Studies in Uralic vocalism III". In Journal of Language Relationship 12, pp. 113–148.

External links

Entry #333 in Uralonet, online Uralic etymological database of the Research Institute for Linguistics, Hungarian Academy of Sciences.