Reconstruction:Proto-Uralic/muďa

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

The Samic-Finnic-Mordvinic words have previously been considered possible loanwords from Germanic, but Aikio (2002) argues that since regular counterparts in Samoyedic can be found, while the Germanic word lacks a good Indo-European etymology, the direction of loaning is likely to have rather been Uralic → Germanic.

Noun

*muďa

1. earth

Synonyms

• *mëxe

Descendants

• Proto-Samoyedic: *məjå
  • Nganasan: моу (mou)
  • Proto-Selkup: *maťə
    • Northern Selkup: мачы (maćy, “forest; steep bank, ravine”), (dialectal) мачь (maćj, “forest; taiga”)
    • Southern Selkup:
      • Ket: мати (mati), матьти (mat’ti, “forest; taiga”)
      • Narym: маҗь (maǯ’, “forest, coniferous forest; taiga”)
      • Upper Ob: маде (madje, “taiga; continent”)
  • Kamassian: [script needed] (mija, “mountain”)
  • Mator: [script needed] (bijä, “mountain”)
• Proto-Mordvinic: *moda
  • Erzya: мода (moda)
  • Moksha: мода (moda)
• Proto-Samic: *moδē (see there for further descendants)
• Proto-Finnic: *muta (see there for further descendants)
• → Proto-Germanic: *muda-, *muþa-; *mudra-, *muþra- (possibly)
  • English: mud
  • Dutch: modder

References

• Aikio, Ante. 2002. "New and Old Samoyed Etymologies". Finnisch-Ugrische Forschungen 57, pp. 9–57.
• Rédei, Károly (1986–88) Uralisches etymologisches Wörterbuch [Uralic Etymological Dictionary] (in German), Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó

External links

• Entry #1420 in Uralonet, online Uralic etymological database of the Hungarian Research Centre for Linguistics.