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Reconstruction:Proto-Uralic/pojka
Proto-Uralic
Etymology
Not attested in Samoyedic, but no other Proto-Samoyedic term for 'boy' or 'son' is known either.
Sammallahti (1988) suggests derivation from a shorter stem *poje.
Noun
*pojka
- boy
- son
Descendants
- Ugric:
- Hungarian: fia, fiú
- Mansi:
- Northern: пыг (pyg)
- Khanty:
- Eastern: пӑг (păg)
- Proto-Permic: *pi (see there for further descendants)
- Mari:
- Eastern Mari: пӱерге (püjerge)
- Western Mari: пӱергы (püjergy)
- Mordvinic:
- Erzya: буё (bujo), пиё (pijo)
- Proto-Finnic: *poika (see there for further descendants); ? *poju (> Finnish poju)
References
- Rédei, Károly (1986–88) Uralisches etymologisches Wörterbuch [Uralic Etymological Dictionary] (in German), Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó
- Sammallahti, Pekka (1988), “Historical Phonology of the Uralic Languages”, in Denis, Sinor, editor, The Uralic Languages: Description, History and Foreign Influences, Leiden: E. J. Brill, →ISBN, pages 478-554
External links
- Entry #785 in Uralonet, online Uralic etymological database of the Research Institute for Linguistics, Hungary.