Reconstruction:Proto-Samoyedic/nä

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

Alternative reconstructions

(Older reconstruction) *ne
(Nganasan) *ne

Etymology

Said to be from Proto-Uralic *niŋä^[1], but the phonetic correspondence is irregular. Perhaps instead related to Proto-Finno-Ugric *näxe- (“to marry”)^[2], whence Finnish nainen (“woman”).

Noun

*nä^[3]

woman

Descendants

Nganasan: ны (nɨ)^[4]
Enets:
- Forest Enets: нэ (ne)^[5]
- Tundra Enets: нэ (ne)^[6]
Nenets:
- Forest Nenets: не̄ (nyē)^[7]
- Tundra Nenets: не (nye)^[8]
Proto-Selkup: *nä^[9]
- ⇒ Northern Selkup: нӓля (nälja), нӓя (näja, “daughter”)^[10]
- Southern Selkup:
  - Narym: нэ (ne, “daughter”)^[11]
  - Upper Ob: ниэ (nie)^[12]
Kamassian: не (ne)^[13]
- Koibal: не (ne)^[14]
Mator: не (ne), нӓ (nä)^[15]

References

^ Entry #598 in Uralonet, online Uralic etymological database of the Hungarian Research Centre for Linguistics.
^ Entry #583 in Uralonet, online Uralic etymological database of the Hungarian Research Centre for Linguistics.
^ Janhunen, Juha. 1977. Samojedischer Wortschatz: Gemeinsamojedische Etymologien ('Samoyedic Vocabulary: Common Samoyedic Etymologies'). Castreanianumin toimitteita 17. Helsinki: Suomalais-Ugrilainen Seura. →ISBN.
^ N. T. Kosterkina, A. C. Momde, T. Y. Zhdanova (2001) Словарь нганасанско-русский и русско-нганасанский, St. Petersburg: Просвещение, →ISBN, page 121
^ P. N. Sorokina (2001) C. D. Bolina, editor, Словарь Энецко-русский и Русско-Энецкий [Forest Enets-Russian and Russian-Forest Enets dictionary]‎^[1], Saint-Petersburg, page 86
^ Olesya Khanina, Andrey Shluinsky (2023) Forest and Tundra Enets‎^[2], →DOI, →ISBN, page 835
^ M. Y. Barmich, I. A. Vello (2002) Словарь ненецко-русский и русско-ненецкий (лесной диалект), Просвещение, →ISBN, page 78
^ N. M. Tereschenko (2005) Словарь ненецко-русский и русско-ненецкий, 3rd edition, Saint Petersburg: Просвещение, →ISBN, page 63
^ T. Janurik (2023) “A protoszölkup nyelvállapot és fejleményei. Elektronikus kézirat.”, in Szamojéd Tudástár‎^[3] (in Hungarian), page 27
^ O. A. Kazakevich, Ye. M. Budyanskaya (2010) Диалектологический словарь селькупского языка (северное наречие) [Dialectological dictionary of the Selkup language (Northern continuum)], Yekaterinburg: Institute of Philology of the Siberian Branch of the RAS; Баско, →ISBN, page 81 of 368
^ I. A. Korobeynikova (2020) Родное слово [Native word], Tomsk: Аграф-Пресс; Вайар, →ISBN, page 83 of 240
^ G. Yu. Kostyuchenko (2023) Тюйкуй Йэжиссан – Селькупский словарь для остяков Молчановского района [Tjuykuy Yezhissan – Selkup dictionary for Molchanovo district Selkup people], Molchanovo, page 53 of 109
^ Donner, Kai R. (1944) Kamassisches Wörterbuch nebst Sprachproben und Hauptzügen der Grammatik‎^[4], Helsinki: Suomalais-Ugrilainen Seura, page 44
^ T. Janurik (2021) Kojbál szótár: a publikált szójegyzékek egyesített szótára.‎^[5] (in Hungarian), Székesfehérvár, page 88
^ E. Helimski (1997) N. Beáta, editor, Die Matorische Sprache‎^[6] (in German), Szeged: JATE Finnugor Tanszék, →ISBN, page 315

[1] Entry #598 in Uralonet, online Uralic etymological database of the Hungarian Research Centre for Linguistics.

[2] Entry #583 in Uralonet, online Uralic etymological database of the Hungarian Research Centre for Linguistics.

[3] Janhunen, Juha. 1977. Samojedischer Wortschatz: Gemeinsamojedische Etymologien ('Samoyedic Vocabulary: Common Samoyedic Etymologies'). Castreanianumin toimitteita 17. Helsinki: Suomalais-Ugrilainen Seura. →ISBN.

[4] N. T. Kosterkina, A. C. Momde, T. Y. Zhdanova (2001) Словарь нганасанско-русский и русско-нганасанский, St. Petersburg: Просвещение, →ISBN, page 121

[5] P. N. Sorokina (2001) C. D. Bolina, editor, Словарь Энецко-русский и Русско-Энецкий [Forest Enets-Russian and Russian-Forest Enets dictionary]‎^[1], Saint-Petersburg, page 86

[6] Olesya Khanina, Andrey Shluinsky (2023) Forest and Tundra Enets‎^[2], →DOI, →ISBN, page 835

[7] M. Y. Barmich, I. A. Vello (2002) Словарь ненецко-русский и русско-ненецкий (лесной диалект), Просвещение, →ISBN, page 78

[8] N. M. Tereschenko (2005) Словарь ненецко-русский и русско-ненецкий, 3rd edition, Saint Petersburg: Просвещение, →ISBN, page 63

[9] T. Janurik (2023) “A protoszölkup nyelvállapot és fejleményei. Elektronikus kézirat.”, in Szamojéd Tudástár‎^[3] (in Hungarian), page 27

[10] O. A. Kazakevich, Ye. M. Budyanskaya (2010) Диалектологический словарь селькупского языка (северное наречие) [Dialectological dictionary of the Selkup language (Northern continuum)], Yekaterinburg: Institute of Philology of the Siberian Branch of the RAS; Баско, →ISBN, page 81 of 368

[11] I. A. Korobeynikova (2020) Родное слово [Native word], Tomsk: Аграф-Пресс; Вайар, →ISBN, page 83 of 240

[12] G. Yu. Kostyuchenko (2023) Тюйкуй Йэжиссан – Селькупский словарь для остяков Молчановского района [Tjuykuy Yezhissan – Selkup dictionary for Molchanovo district Selkup people], Molchanovo, page 53 of 109

[13] Donner, Kai R. (1944) Kamassisches Wörterbuch nebst Sprachproben und Hauptzügen der Grammatik‎^[4], Helsinki: Suomalais-Ugrilainen Seura, page 44

[14] T. Janurik (2021) Kojbál szótár: a publikált szójegyzékek egyesített szótára.‎^[5] (in Hungarian), Székesfehérvár, page 88

[15] E. Helimski (1997) N. Beáta, editor, Die Matorische Sprache‎^[6] (in German), Szeged: JATE Finnugor Tanszék, →ISBN, page 315

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