Reconstruction:Proto-Uralic/minä

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Reconstruction:Proto-Uralic/minä

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

Etymology

Compared to Northern Yukaghir [script needed] (met) and Proto-Indo-European *(e)me-n-.

Pronoun

*minä (plural *me)

1. I

Descendants

• Samoyedic
  • Nenets
    • Tundra Nenets: мань (mań)
  • Nganasan: мәнә (mənə)
• Ugric
  • Mansi: ам (am) (Northern), [script needed] (äm) (Southern)
  • Hungarian: én
• Permic
  • Komi-Zyrian: ме (me)
  • Udmurt: мон (mon)
• Finnic: *minä

Further reading

• Entry #576 in Uralonet, online Uralic etymological database of the Research Institute for Linguistics, Hungarian Academy of Sciences.