Reconstruction:Proto-Uralic/muďa

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

The Samic-Finnic-Mordvinic words have previously been considered possible loanwords from Germanic, but Aikio (2002) argues that since regular counterparts in Samoyedic can be found, while the Germanic word lacks a good Indo-European etymology, the direction of loaning is likely to have rather been Uralic → Germanic.

Noun

*muďa

earth

Synonyms

*mëxe

Descendants

Proto-Samoyedic: *məjå
- Nganasan: моу (mou)
- Selkup: [script needed] (maći)
- Kamassian: [script needed] (mija, “mountain”)
- Mator: [script needed] (bijä, “mountain”)
Proto-Mordvinic: *mə̑da (see there for further descendants)
Proto-Samic: *moδē (see there for further descendants)
Proto-Finnic: *muta (see there for further descendants)
→ Proto-Germanic: *muda-, *muþa-; *mudra-, *muþra- (possibly)
- English: mud
- Dutch: modder

References

Aikio, Ante. 2002. "New and Old Samoyed Etymologies". Finnisch-Ugrische Forschungen 57, pp. 9–57.
Rédei, Károly (1986–88) Uralisches etymologisches Wörterbuch [Uralic Etymological Dictionary] (in German), Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó

External links

Entry #1420 in Uralonet, online Uralic etymological database of the Research Institute for Linguistics, Hungary.