Reconstruction:Proto-Mansi/wār

Proto-Mansi

Etymology

From Proto-Uralic *wëre (“peak”).

Noun

*wār

1. forest

Descendants

• Northern Mansi: во̄р (vōr)
• Eastern Mansi: вор (vor)
• Western Mansi: вор (vor)
• Southern Mansi: [script needed] (wār)

Further reading

• Ante Aikio (2015) The Finnic ‘secondary e-stems’ and Proto-Uralic vocalism‎^[1], Oulu, Helsinki, page 38
• E. A. Kuzakova (1994) “вор”, in Словарь манси (восточный диалект) [Mansi dictionary (eastern dialect)], Moskwa: Российская академия наук, Ин-т этнологии и антропологии им. Миклухо-Маклая, page 47