Reconstruction:Proto-Yukaghir/ńu:

This Proto-Yukaghir 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-Yukaghir

Etymology

Has been compared to Proto-Uralic *nime.

Noun

*ńu:

1. name

Descendants

• Southern Yukaghir: ньуу (nʹū)
• Chuvan: ныва (nywa)

References

• Nikolaeva, Irina (2006) A Historical Dictionary of Yukaghir (Trends in Linguistics Documentation; 25), Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter, →ISBN, page 312