Reconstruction:Proto-Uralic/mone

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

Alternative forms

*mune

Etymology

Probably somehow related to (Northwestern) Proto-Indo-European *monogʰos (whence Proto-Germanic *managaz, Proto-Celtic *menekkis, Proto-Balto-Slavic *managas), which has sometimes been considered a substrate loan. The Uralic word is possibly from the same source, and if so, possibly borrowed through Indo-European.

Pronoun

*mone

some
many

Numeral

*-mone

? -ty

Usage notes

This word can only be safely reconstructed to Proto-Finno-Permic, unless the Ugric descendants are related (alternatively, they and the Permic "-ty" may represent a separate root).

Descendants

⇒ Proto-Permic: *mu̇nda
- Komi-Zyrian: мында (mynda)
- Udmurt: мында (mynda)
Proto-Samic:
- Northern Sami: moanat
Proto-Finnic: *moni (see there for further descendants)

Uncertain (may be a separate root):

>? Proto-Permic: *-mu̇n (“-ty”)
- ⇒ Komi-Zyrian: комын (komyn)
- ⇒ Udmurt: куамын (kuamyn)
Ugric:
- >? Mansi: -ман (-man, “-ty”), -пан (-pan) (in налыман (nalyman, “forty”), атпан (atpan, “fifty”), хōтпан (hōtpan, “sixty”), сатпан (satpan, “seventy”))
- >? Hungarian: -van (“-ty”), -ven (in negyven (“forty”), ötven (“fifty”), hatvan (“sixty”), hetven (“seventy”), nyolcvan (“eighty”), kilencven (“ninety”))

External links

Entry #550 in Uralonet, online Uralic etymological database of the Research Institute for Linguistics, Hungary.