Reconstruction:Proto-Ugric/mańćɜ

This Proto-Ugric 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-Ugric

Etymology 1

Uncertain.

• The term may may be an Indo-Iranian borrowing, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *mon-. Compare Sanskrit मनुष्य (manuṣyá)).
• Alternatively from Proto-Uralic *mënɜ- (“to say”).

Noun

*mańćɜ

1. man, person

Descendants

• ⇒ Old Hungarian: mogyër
  • Hungarian: magyar (“Hungarian”) (see there for further descendants)
• Mansi:
  • Northern Mansi: ма̄ньси (mānʹsi, “Mansi”)
  • Eastern Mansi: маньсь (manʹsʹ, “Mansi”)

Etymology 2

May be ultimately identical to the above etymology, via the concept of family, clan, or phratry and the sense ‘saga, tales of (heroic) deeds, the story of a family’.

Alternative forms

• *maćɜ

Noun

*mańćɜ

2. tale

Descendants

• Hungarian: mese (“tale”)

Verb

*mańćɜ

1. tell (a tale, story)

Further reading

• (etymology 1):
  • Entry #1799 in Uralonet, online Uralic etymological database of the Hungarian Research Centre for Linguistics.
  • magyar in Gerstner, Károly (ed.). Új magyar etimológiai szótár. (’New Etymological Dictionary of Hungarian’). Beta version. Budapest, MTA Nyelvtudományi Intézet / Magyar Nyelvtudományi Kutatóközpont, 2011–2022. (Research Institute for Linguistics, Hungary). Language abbreviations
• (etymology 2):
  • Entry #1800 in Uralonet, online Uralic etymological database of the Hungarian Research Centre for Linguistics.
  • mese in Gerstner, Károly (ed.). Új magyar etimológiai szótár. (’New Etymological Dictionary of Hungarian’). Beta version. Budapest, MTA Nyelvtudományi Intézet / Magyar Nyelvtudományi Kutatóközpont, 2011–2022. (Research Institute for Linguistics, Hungary). Language abbreviations