Reconstruction:Proto-Uralic/me

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

Pronoun

*me (singular *minä)

1. we

Descendants

• Samoyedic:
  • Nenets:
    • Tundra Nenets: [script needed] (mańeʔ)
  • Nganasan: [script needed] (mêŋ)
  • Selkup:
    • Northern Selkup: ме (mje)
    • Southern Selkup:
      • Narym: ми̇
      • Upper Ob: мээ
  • Koibal: ме (me)
• Ugric:
  • Mansi:
    • Northern Mansi: ма̄н (mān)
    • Southern Mansi: [script needed] (mäŋ)
  • Khanty:
    • Eastern Khanty: [script needed] (mĕŋ)
    • Northern Khanty: [script needed] (muŋ)
    • Southern Khanty: [script needed] (mŏŋ)
  • Hungarian: mi
• Proto-Permic: *mi (see there for further descendants)
• Mari:
  • Eastern Mari: ме (me)
  • Western Mari: мӓ (mä)
• Mordvinic:
  • Erzya: минь (miń)
  • Moksha: минь (miń)
• Proto-Samic: *mij
  • Western Samic:
    • Lule Sami: mij
  • Eastern Samic:
    • Skolt Sami: mij
    • Akkala Sami: мий (mij)
    • Kildin Sami: мыйй (myjj)
    • Ter Sami: мый, mïj
• Proto-Finnic: *mek (see there for further descendants)

Further reading

• Entry #577 in Uralonet, online Uralic etymological database of the Hungarian Research Centre for Linguistics.
• S. N. Tereshkin (2002) Йоканьгский диалект саамского языка [Ter dialect of the Sámi language], Российский государственный педагогический Университет имени А.И. Герцена, page 110