Reconstruction:Proto-Uralic/wäŋew

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

Reconstruction

The evidence for the stem-final *-w is scanty, but note the Kamass and Koibal consonant clusters, which are regular reflexes of a Proto-Samoyedic cluster *-ŋw-, perhaps reflecting an old paradigm *wäŋew : *wäŋwe (the latter also explaining the Sámi consonantism). The glide was originally posited due to a common belief that Proto-Uralic words could not contain labial vowels in unstressed syllables, to account for the labial vowels in Finnic and Samoyedic. Compare *kälew, *nataw.

Noun

*wäŋew

son-in-law

Descendants

Proto-Samoyedic: *wiŋü
- Nganasan: биӈи (biŋi)
- Enets:
  - Tundra Enets: [Term?] (bii)
- Nenets:
  - Forest Nenets: вий (ẃīj)
  - Tundra Nenets: ий (jīj)
- Selkup: [script needed] (kwenä)
- Mator: [script needed] (миюг)
- Kamass-Koibal:
  - Kamassian: [script needed] (malmi)
  - Koibal: [script needed] (maŋmə)
Proto-Ugric: *wäŋĭ- (see there for further descendants)
Proto-Mari: *wiŋə (see there for further descendants)
Proto-Mordvinic: *oɣə̑ (see there for further descendants)
Proto-Finnic: *vävü (see there for further descendants)
- → ? Samic: *vivë

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
Tamás, Janurik (2021): Kamassz szótár: a publikált szójegyzékek egyesített szótára [Kamass dictionary: a unified dictionary of published dictionaries] (in Hungarian)

External links

Entry #1133 in Uralonet, online Uralic etymological database of the Research Institute for Linguistics, Hungary.