Reconstruction:Proto-Uralic/joke

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

Likely a doublet *juka, from which some of the descendants may also rather derive.

Noun

*joke

1. river

Descendants

• Samoyedic
  • Enets:
    • Forest Enets: дёха
    • Tundra Enets: дяха
  • Nenets
    • Tundra Nenets: яха (yaxa)
• Ugric
  • Mansi:
    • Northern Mansi: я̄ (â̄)
  • Hungarian: jó (archaic, used only in place names)
• Proto-Permic: *ju (see there for further descendants)
• >? Proto-Mordvinic:
  • >? Erzya: Йов (Jov, “the Moksha river”)
• Proto-Finnic: *joki (see there for further descendants)
• Proto-Samic: *jokë (see there for further descendants)

Further reading

• Entry #186 in Uralonet, online Uralic etymological database of the Hungarian Research Centre for Linguistics.