Reconstruction:Proto-Samoyedic/irɜ
Proto-Samoyedic
Alternative reconstructions
- *iräj
- (Tundra Nenets) *jirɜ, *jiräj
Etymology
Uncertain. Perhaps related to Proto-Ugric *üräŋɜ (“big; old”)[1], whence Northern Khanty ар (ar, “much, many”), Northern Mansi арыг (aryg, “extra, excess”), and Hungarian öreg (“old, elderly; (dial.) big”). Alternatively, a derivative of *er- (“before”).
Noun
*irɜ[2]
Descendants
- >? Nganasan: ири (iri)[3]
- Nenets:
- Proto-Selkup: *ira[6]
- Mator: ирей (irej, “bear”)[10]
- → Tofa: ире (ire), ирей (irey, “(great-)grandfather; bear”)
- → Tuvan: ире (ire), ирей (irey, “(great-)grandfather; husband's father; bear”)
References
- ^ Ante Aikio (2020) Uralic Etymological Dictionary (draft version of entries A–Ć; 1/17/2020)[1], pages 96-97
- ^ Janhunen, Juha. 1977. Samojedischer Wortschatz: Gemeinsamojedische Etymologien ('Samoyedic Vocabulary: Common Samoyedic Etymologies'). Castreanianumin toimitteita 17. Helsinki: Suomalais-Ugrilainen Seura. →ISBN.
- ^ N. T. Kosterkina, A. C. Momde, T. Y. Zhdanova (2001) Словарь нганасанско-русский и русско-нганасанский, St. Petersburg: Просвещение, →ISBN, page 58
- ^ M. Y. Barmich, I. A. Vello (2002) Словарь ненецко-русский и русско-ненецкий (лесной диалект), Просвещение, →ISBN, page 82
- ^ N. M. Tereschenko (2005) Словарь ненецко-русский и русско-ненецкий, 3rd edition, Saint Petersburg: Просвещение, →ISBN, page 37
- ^ T. Janurik (2023) “A protoszölkup nyelvállapot és fejleményei. Elektronikus kézirat.”, in Szamojéd Tudástár[2] (in Hungarian), page 18
- ^ O. A. Kazakevich, Ye. M. Budyanskaya (2010) Диалектологический словарь селькупского языка (северное наречие) [Dialectological dictionary of the Selkup language (Northern continuum)], Yekaterinburg: Institute of Philology of the Siberian Branch of the RAS; Баско, →ISBN, page 33 of 368
- ^ I. A. Korobeynikova (2020) Родное слово [Native word], Tomsk: Аграф-Пресс; Вайар, →ISBN, page 49 of 240
- ^ G. Yu. Kostyuchenko (2023) Тюйкуй Йэжиссан – Селькупский словарь для остяков Молчановского района [Tjuykuy Yezhissan – Selkup dictionary for Molchanovo district Selkup people], Molchanovo, page 14 of 109
- ^ E. Helimski (1997) N. Beáta, editor, Die Matorische Sprache[3] (in German), Szeged: JATE Finnugor Tanszék, →ISBN, page 255