Reconstruction:Proto-Uralic/ku-

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

Sometimes compared, especially by proponents of the Indo-Uralic hypothesis, with Proto-Indo-European *kʷ-, *kʷos.

Pronoun

*ku-

  1. who
  2. where
  • *ko-

Descendants

  • Proto-Samoyedic: *ku- (see there for further descendants)
  • Ugric:
  • Proto-Permic: *kod (see there for further descendants)
  • Proto-Mordvinic: *ko-
  • Proto-Finnic: *ku (see there for further descendants)

From *kuńćɜ:[1]

  • Samoyedic:
    • Nenets:
      • Forest Nenets: ? [script needed] (kuše)
  • Ugric:
  • Permic:
    • Komi-Zyrian: кыдз (kydź)
    • Udmurt: кызьы (kyźy)
  • Mari:
    • Western Mari: кыче (kyče)
    • Eastern Mari: кузе (kuze)
  • Finnic: ? *konsa

References

  1. ^ Lytkin, V. I., Gulyaev, E. S., editors (1970), “кыдз”, in Краткий этимологический словарь коми языка [Brief Etymological Dictionary of the Komi Language]‎[1] (in Russian), Moscow: Nauka

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