Reconstruction:Proto-Uralic/kira

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

*kira

anger

Descendants

Ugric:
- Hungarian: harag
- Proto-Mansi: ⇒ *kʷar- (“to quarrel”)
  - Eastern Mansi: (Lower Konda) [script needed] (xɔr-)
  - Eastern Mansi: (Upper Konda) [script needed] (kʷår-)
  - Western Mansi: [script needed] (kʷɔr-)
- Proto-Khanty: ⇒ *ki̮rām- (“to get angry”)
  - Eastern Khanty: [script needed] (kăram-)
Proto-Mordvinic:
- Erzya: кор (kor, “annoyance, anger”)

From *kira-w:

Proto-Samic: *kërō, ⇒ *kërōtēk (see there for further descendants)
Proto-Finnic: *kiro, ⇒ *kirot'ak (see there for further descendants)

References

Aikio, Ante. 2025. "The Etymology of Mari *jŭmǝ ‘sky; God’". Finnisch-Ugrische Forschungen 2025 (70): 3–26.[1]