Reconstruction:Proto-Uralic/ńële

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

Etymology

Sometimes compared with Proto-Tungusic *ńure (“arrow”) (whence Manchu ᠨᡳᡵᡠ (niru)).

Noun

*ńële

1. arrow

Descendants

• Proto-Samoyedic: *ńëj (see there for further descendants)
• Ugric:
  • Proto-Khanty: *ńāl (see there for further descendants)
  • Proto-Mansi: *ńī̮l (see there for further descendants)
  • Hungarian: nyíl
• Proto-Permic: *ńȯl (see there for further descendants)
• Proto-Mari: *nülə (see there for further descendants)
• Proto-Mordvinic: *nal (see there for further descendants)
• Proto-Samic: *ńuolë (see there for further descendants)
• Proto-Finnic: *nooli (see there for further descendants)

References

• Rédei, Károly (1986–88) Uralisches etymologisches Wörterbuch [Uralic Etymological Dictionary] (in German), Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó
• Sammallahti, Pekka (1988) “Historical Phonology of the Uralic Languages”, in Denis, Sinor, editor, The Uralic Languages: Description, History and Foreign Influences, Leiden: E. J. Brill, →ISBN, pages 478-554

External links

• Entry #622 in Uralonet, online Uralic etymological database of the Hungarian Research Centre for Linguistics.