Reconstruction:Proto-Uralic/mi

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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

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Etymology

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A relation has been suggested with Proto-Indo-European *mo- (interrogative stem), whence derived Hittite maši- (“how many”) and Tocharian A mänt (“how”).[1]

Pronoun

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*mi

  1. what (interrogative)

Descendants

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  • Ugric:
    • Mansi:
      • ⇒ Northern Mansi: ма̄ныр (mānyr)
    • Hungarian: mi
  • Permic
  • Proto-Mordvinic: *me-, *meźə
  • Proto-Samic:
    • Northern Sami: mii
    • Southern Sami: mij
    • Lule Sami: mij
  • Proto-Finnic: *mi

References

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  1. ^ Michaël Peyrot (2019) “Indo-Uralic, Indo-Anatolian, Indo-Tocharian”, in Alwin Kloekhorst, Tijmen Pronk, editors, The Precursors of Proto-Indo-European: The Indo-Anatolian and Indo-Uralic Hypotheses.‎[1], Brill, pages 195-199

Further reading

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