Reconstruction:Proto-Uralic/kuje

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

*kuje

1. fat

Descendants

• Ugric:
  • Hungarian: háj
• Proto-Mordvinic: *kuj-a
  • Erzya: куя (kuja)
  • Moksha: куя (kujä)
• Proto-Finnic: *kuu (see there for further descendants)

Further reading

• Entry #382 in Uralonet, online Uralic etymological database of the Hungarian Research Centre for Linguistics.