Reconstruction:Proto-Uralic/emä

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

Noun

*emä

  1. mother
  2. woman

Reconstruction notes

The initial vowel correspondence is irregular: Samoyedic and Hungarian point to *ämä, while Samic and Finnic point to *emä.

Descendants

  • Proto-Samic: *eamē (see there for further descendants)
  • Proto-Finnic: *emä (see there for further descendants)

From *ämä:

  • Proto-Samoyedic: *ämä (see there for further descendants)
  • Ugric:
    • Hungarian: (obsolete) eme (“sow”), ⇒ emse

References

  • Ante Aikio (2020), Uralic Etymological Dictionary (draft version of entries A–Ć; 1/17/2020)‎[1], pages 45-46
  • Häkkinen, Kaisa (2004), Nykysuomen etymologinen sanakirja [Modern Finnish Etymological Dictionary] (in Finnish), Juva: WSOY, →ISBN

Further reading

  • Eino Koponen, Klaas Ruppel, Kirsti Aapala, editors (2002–2008), Álgu database: Etymological database of the Saami languages‎[2], Helsinki: Research Institute for the Languages of Finland
  • Entry #134 in Uralonet, online Uralic etymological database of the Hungarian Research Centre for Linguistics.
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