Reconstruction:Proto-Uralic/emä

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

*emä

1. mother
2. woman

Descendants

• Proto-Samoyedic: *ämä
  • Nenets
    • Tundra Nenets: небя (nyebya)
  • Nganasan: [script needed] (ńame)
  • Selkup:
    • Northern Selkup: [script needed] (ämä)
    • Southern Selkup:
      • Narym: ав
      • Upper Ob: ау, эу/йэу
• Ugric:
  • Hungarian: eme
• Proto-Samic: *eamē (see there for further descendants)
• Proto-Finnic: *emä (see there for further descendants)

References

• Häkkinen, Kaisa (2013). Nykysuomen etymologinen sanakirja. Helsinki: Sanoma Pro OY. →ISBN.

Further reading

• Koponen, Eino, Ruppel, Klaas, Aapala, Kirsti, editors (2002–2008), Álgu database: Etymological database of the Saami languages‎^[1], Helsinki: Research Institute for the Languages of Finland
• Entry #134 in Uralonet, online Uralic etymological database of the Hungarian Research Centre for Linguistics.