Reconstruction:Proto-Uralic/mëxe

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Reconstruction:Proto-Uralic/mëxe

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

An etymology that has not received wide acceptance is put forth by Koivulehto (2009) that the word is possibly an old loanword from an Indo-Iranian language, from Proto-Indo-European *meǵh₂s (“big, great”) (presumably in the sense of “greatness, expanse”)[1] (compare specifically Sanskrit मही (mahī́, “earth”), Proto-Celtic *magos (“plain, field”)). This etymology is rejected by Holopainen (2019).[2]

Noun

*mëxe

1. earth, land

   Synonym: *muďa

Descendants

• Samoyedic:
  • Nganasan: моу
• Ugric:
  •  ? Khanty: *meɣ
    • Eastern: мәг (məg)
    • Northern: мўв (mŭw), мув (muw)
  • Mansi: *mëë
    • Northern: ма̄ (mā)
    • Southern: [script needed] (mɛ̮̄)
• Proto-Permic: *mu
  • Komi-Permyak: му (mu)
  • Komi-Zyrian: му (mu)
  • Udmurt: му (mu)
• Mari:
  • ⇒ Eastern Mari: мла́нде (mlánde), мӱнӧ (münö, “down, below”)
  • ⇒ Western Mari: мӱланды (mülandy)
• Proto-Finnic: *maa (see there for further descendants)

References

• Häkkinen, Kaisa (2004) Nykysuomen etymologinen sanakirja [Modern Finnish Etymological Dictionary] (in Finnish), Juva: WSOY, →ISBN
• Itkonen, Erkki; Kulonen, Ulla-Maija, editors (1992–2000) Suomen sanojen alkuperä [The origin of Finnish words]‎ (in Finnish), [note: linked online version also includes some other etymological sources], Helsinki: Institute for the Languages of Finland/Finnish Literature Society, →ISBN

1. Koivulehto, Jorma. 2009. "Etymologisesti hämäriä -(is)tA-johdosverbejä, lainoja ja omapohjaisia". Suomalais-Ugrilaisen Seuran Aikakauskirja 92, pp. 79–102.
2. Holopainen, Sampsa. 2019. Indo-Iranian borrowings in Uralic : Critical overview of sound substitutions and distribution criterion. . pp. 138–139.

External links

• Entry #518 in Uralonet, online Uralic etymological database of the Research Institute for Linguistics, Hungary.