Reconstruction:Proto-Uralic/mënɜ-

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

Verb

*mënɜ-

to say

Descendants

Samoyedic: *må-
- Nganasan: мунса (munsa)
- Enets:
  - Forest Enets: мамби (mambi)
  - Tundra Enets: мана (mana)
- Nenets:
  - Tundra Nenets: манзь (manzʔ)
Ugric:
- Hungarian: mond
Mari:
- Meadow Mari: манам (manam)
- Hill Mari: [script needed] (mà·nam)
Mordvinic:
- Erzya: мунямс (munjams)
- Moksha: [script needed] (məńams)
Finnic: *manat'ak
- Finnish: manata (“to curse, damn, invoke, urge”)

References

Rédei, Károly, and Marianne Sz. Bakró-Nagy. Uralisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch. Vol. 1. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, 1988. Print.
Lehtiranta, Juhani. Yhteissaamelainen sanasto. Helsinki : Suomalais-ugrilainen Seura, 1989. Print.
Collinder, Björn. Fenno-Ugric Vocabulary : an Etymological Dictionary of the Uralic Languages. Hamburg : Helmut Buske Verlag, 1977. Print.
Aikio, Ante. The Saami Loanwords in Finnish and Karelian. Oulu : University of Oulu, 2009. Print.
Comparative Nenets-Nganasan Multimedia Dictionary
Lexik des Enzischen/Ents Lexik

External links

Entry #570 in Uralonet, online Uralic etymological database of the Research Institute for Linguistics, Hungarian Academy of Sciences.