Reconstruction:Proto-Uralic/kojwa

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

Noun

*kojwa

1. birch

Descendants

• Proto-Samoyedic: *koəj
  • Nganasan: күо (küo)
  • Tundra Enets: ко (ko)
  • Nenets:
    • Tundra Nenets: хо (xo)
  • Proto-Selkup: *k͔üə
    • Northern Selkup: ӄя (qja)
    • Southern Selkup:
      • Narym: кве (kwje)
  • Kamassian: койӱ (kojü)
  • Mator: ку
• Ugric:
  • Hungarian: hajó (“ship”)
  • Mansi:
    • Northern Mansi: ха̄ль (hālʹ)
• Mari:
  • Eastern Mari: куэ (kue)
  • Western Mari: куги (kugi)
• Proto-Mordvinic: *kij-, *kuj-
  • Erzya: килей (kiľej)
  • Moksha: келу (kelu)
• Proto-Finnic: *koivu (see there for further descendants)

Further reading

• Entry #334 in Uralonet, online Uralic etymological database of the Hungarian Research Centre for Linguistics.