Reconstruction:Proto-Uralic/śerɜ

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

*śerɜ

1. row, order

Descendants

• Ugric:
  • Hungarian: szer
  • Mansi:
    • Northern Mansi: [script needed] (sir)
  • Khanty:
    • Eastern Khanty: сӗр (“kind, nature”), сӱр (sür, “clan, origin”)
    • Northern Khanty: сыр (syr)
• Proto-Permic: *śer
  • Komi:
    • Komi-Zyryan: сер (śer)
• Proto-Mari: *śĭr (see there for further descendants)
• Samoyedic:
  • Nenets:
    • Tundra Nenets: серʼ (śer°, “thing, matter; bad thing; like, in the way of …”)
  • Enets:
    • Forest Enets: сиэъ (śieʔ, “thing, matter”)
    • Tundra Enets: сиэъ (śieʔ, “thing, matter”)
  • Nganasan: съиер (sier, “thing, matter”)

Further reading

• Entry #957 in Uralonet, online Uralic etymological database of the Hungarian Research Centre for Linguistics.
• Rédei, Károly (1986–88) Uralisches etymologisches Wörterbuch [Uralic Etymological Dictionary] (in German), Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó
• Benkő L., editor (1993–1997), “szer²”, in Etymologisches Wörterbuch des Ungarischen I–III [The Etymological Dictionary of Hungarian] (in German), Vol. 1: A–kop (1993), vol. 2: Kor–zs (1995), vol. 3: index (1997), Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, →ISBN, pages 2:1422–1423

Verb

*śerɜ

1. (maybe only in Proto-Hungarian) to join; to be linked / related to each other

Descendants

• Ugric:
  • Hungarian:
    • ⇒ szerelem (“romantic love”), ⇒ szeret (“to love, to like”)
    • ⇒ szerdék¹ (“(obsolete) curdled milk, jam dregs”)
    • ⇒ szerdék² (“(obsolete) acuisition, prey; strange thing; apparatus, component”)
    • ⇒ szerkezet (“construction, structure”), ⇒ szerkeszt (“to edit”)

Further reading

• Benkő L., editor (1993–1997), “szer², szerdék¹, szerdék², szerelem, szerk”, in Etymologisches Wörterbuch des Ungarischen I–III [The Etymological Dictionary of Hungarian] (in German), Vol. 1: A–kop (1993), vol. 2: Kor–zs (1995), vol. 3: index (1997), Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, →ISBN, pages 2:1422–1424, 1426