Reconstruction:Proto-Uralic/pire

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

Alternative forms

• *pirä

Reconstruction

The Finnic and Saamic words suggest *e in the second syllable, but the Mordvinic forms suggest *pirä. The Finnic and Saamic words suggest *piire, but the Mordvinic forms with e suggest *pire.

Etymology

Sometimes compared with Proto-Mongolic *hergi- (“to go round”), whence Mongolian эргэх (ergex, “to turn”), Buryat эрьехэ (erʹjexe), эрьелдэхэ (erʹjeldexe), Kalmyk эргх (ergx, “to spin, go round”); Evenki хэркэми (hərkəmi, “to tie, bind together”), Manchu ᡥᡝᡵᡤᡳ (hergi, “to wind”); Proto-Indo-European *péri, whence Sanskrit परि (pari), Avestan 𐬞𐬀𐬌𐬭𐬌 (paⁱri), Ancient Greek περί (perí, “around”).

Noun

*pire

1. circle

Descendants

• Samoyedic:
  • >? Kamassian: [script needed] (pjeri, “around”)
  • Selkup:
    • >? Northern Selkup:
      • Taz: пӱрэ (püre, “ring, circle”)
    • >? Southern Selkup:
      • Ket: пыр (pyr, “perimeter, round”)
    • ? Uncategorized Selkup : пӱру (püru), пӧру
• Permic:
  • >? Komi-Zyrian: бор (bor, “border, garden”)
• Proto-Mordvinic: *piŕə
  • Erzya: пире (piŕe, “(enclosed) vegetable garden”)
  • Moksha: перя (peŕa, “fence”)
• Proto-Finnic: *piiri (see there for further descendants)
• Proto-Samic: *pirë (see there for further descendants)

References

• Entry #773 in Uralonet, online Uralic etymological database of the Hungarian Research Centre for Linguistics.