Reconstruction:Proto-Uralic/ńiŋe

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

*ńiŋe

1. maggot

Descendants

• Proto-Samoyedic:
  • Selkup:
    • Northern Selkup: нени (njeni)
• Ugric
  • Mansi:
    • Northern Mansi: ниӈк (niňk) (obsolete)
  • Hungarian: nyű

Further reading

• Entry #630 in Uralonet, online Uralic etymological database of the Hungarian Research Centre for Linguistics.