Reconstruction:Proto-Uralic/mi

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

Etymology

A relation has been suggested with Proto-Indo-European *mo- (interrogative stem), whence derived Hittite maši- (“how many”) and Tocharian A mänt (“how”).^[1]

Pronoun

*mi

what (interrogative)

Descendants

Ugric:
- Mansi:
  - Northern Mansi: ма̄ныр (mānyr)
  - Eastern Mansi: мятыр (mâtyr)
- Hungarian: mi
Permic
- Komi-Zyrian: мый (myj)
- Udmurt: ма (ma)
Proto-Mordvinic: *me-, *meźə
- Erzya: мезе (meźe), мее (meje), мень (meń)
- Moksha: мезе (meźe)
Proto-Samic:
- Northern Sami: mii
- Southern Sami: mij
- Lule Sami: mij
- Ter Sami: мӣ (mī)
- Kildin Sami: мӣ (mī)
- Akkala Sami: мӣ (mī)
Proto-Finnic: *mi (see there for further descendants)

References

^ Michaël Peyrot (2019) “Indo-Uralic, Indo-Anatolian, Indo-Tocharian”, in Alwin Kloekhorst, Tijmen Pronk, editors, The Precursors of Proto-Indo-European: The Indo-Anatolian and Indo-Uralic Hypotheses.‎^[1], Brill, pages 195-199