Reconstruction:Proto-Samoyedic/tən

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

From Proto-Uralic *tinä.

Pronoun

*tən

1. you, thou

Descendants

• • Nganasan: тәнә (tənə)
• Enets:
  • Tundra Enets: [script needed] (toďi)
• Selkup:
  • Northern Selkup: тан (tan), тат (tat)
  • Southern Selkup:
    • Narym Selkup: тат (tat)
    • Chulym Selkup: тан (tan)
• Kamassian: тхан (tʰan)
• Koibal: танъ
• Mator: тӑнъ

References

• Janhunen, Juha. 2013. "Personal pronouns in core Altaic". In: Robbeets, Martine; Cuyckens, Hubert (eds.) Shared Grammaticalization. With special focus on the Transeurasian languages. John Benjamins.
• Rédei, Károly (1986–88) Uralisches etymologisches Wörterbuch [Uralic Etymological Dictionary] (in German), Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó