Reconstruction:Proto-Uralic/ajŋe

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

*ajŋe

1. brain

Descendants

• Ugric:
  • Hungarian: agy
• Proto-Mordvinic:
  • Moksha: уй (uj)
• Proto-Samic: *vuojŋëmē-, *vuojŋëš-, *vuojvëšnē (see there for further descendants)
• Proto-Finnic: *aivo (see there for further descendants)

References

• Aikio, Ante. 2016. "The Finnic 'secondary e-stems' and Proto-Uralic vocalism". Suomalais-Ugrilaisen Seuran Aikakauskirja 95, pp. 25–66.
• Ante Aikio (2020) Uralic Etymological Dictionary (draft)‎^[1]

Further reading

• Entry #5 in Uralonet, online Uralic etymological database of the Hungarian Research Centre for Linguistics.