Reconstruction:Proto-Uralic/mone

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

Alternative forms

  • *mune

Etymology

Probably somehow related to (Northwestern) Proto-Indo-European *monogʰos (whence Proto-Germanic *managaz, Proto-Celtic *menekkis, Proto-Balto-Slavic *managas), which has sometimes been considered a substrate loan. The Uralic word is possibly from the same source, and if so, possibly borrowed through Indo-European.

Pronoun

*mone

  1. some
  2. many

Numeral

*-mone

  1. ? -ty

Usage notes

This word can only be safely reconstructed to Proto-Finno-Permic, unless the Ugric descendants are related (alternatively, they and the Permic "-ty" may represent a separate root).

Descendants

  • ⇒ Proto-Permic: *mu̇nda
  • Proto-Samic:
    • Northern Sami: moanat
  • Proto-Finnic: *moni (see there for further descendants)

Uncertain (may be a separate root):

  • >? Proto-Permic: *-mu̇n (“-ty”)
    • ⇒ Komi-Zyrian: комын (komyn)
    • ⇒ Udmurt: куамын (kuamyn)
  • Ugric:
    • Mansi:
      • >? Northern Mansi: -ман (-man, “-ty”), -пан (-pan) (in налыман (nalyman, “forty”), атпан (atpan, “fifty”), хōтпан (hōtpan, “sixty”), сатпан (satpan, “seventy”))
    • >? Hungarian: -van (“-ty”), -ven (in negyven (“forty”), ötven (“fifty”), hatvan (“sixty”), hetven (“seventy”), nyolcvan (“eighty”), kilencven (“ninety”))
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