Reconstruction:Proto-Uralic/pojka

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

Not attested in Samoyedic (except possibly as a borrowing into Proto-Yeniseian *pojka), but no other Proto-Samoyedic term for 'boy' or 'son' is known either.

Sammallahti (1988) suggests derivation from a shorter stem *poje.

Noun

*pojka

  1. boy
  2. son

Descendants

  • Ugric:
    • Hungarian: fia, fiú
    • Mansi:
    • Khanty:
      • Eastern Khanty: пӑг (păg)
  • Proto-Permic: *pi (see there for further descendants)
  • Mari:
    • Eastern Mari: пӱерге (püjerge)
    • Western Mari: пӱергы (püjergy)
  • Proto-Mordvinic: *pujə~*pijə
    • Erzya: буё (bujo), пиё (pijo)
  • Proto-Finnic: *poika (see there for further descendants); ? *poju (> Finnish poju)
  • → Proto-Yeniseian: *pojka (“male person”) (likely through Samoyedic)

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
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