Reconstruction:Proto-Samoyedic/nakur

This Proto-Samoyedic 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-Samoyedic

Etymology

Possibly comparable to Proto-Chukotko-Kamchatkan *Nəroq (“three”). (This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Numeral

*nakur

1. three

Descendants

• Nganasan: нагүр (nagyr)
• Enets:
  • Forest Enets: нэху (nεxu)
• Nenets:
  • Forest Nenets: няхаԓ (njaxaɬ)
  • Tundra Nenets: няхӑрˮ (nyaxăr)
• Selkup:
  • Northern Selkup: нөкыр (nøkɨr)
  • Southern Selkup:
    • Narym Selkup: на́гур (nágur)
• Kamassian: нагур (nagur)
• Koibal: на́гурь (nágur'), нагоръ (nagorъ)
• Mator: на́гурь (nágur')

References

• Janhunen, Juha. 1977. Samojedischer Wortschatz: Gemeinsamojedische Etymologien ('Samoyedic Vocabulary: Common Samoyedic Etymologies'). Castreanianumin toimitteita 17. Helsinki: Suomalais-Ugrilainen Seura. →ISBN.
• Tapani Salminen (2012) “Traces of Proto-Samoyed vowel contrasts in Nenets”, in Suomalais-Ugrilaisen Seuran Toimituksia, Helsinki