Reconstruction:Proto-Uralic/ku-

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

Sometimes compared, especially by proponents of the Indo-Uralic hypothesis, with Proto-Indo-European *kʷ-, *kʷos.

Pronoun

*ku-

1. who
2. where

Related terms

• *ko-

Descendants

• Ugric:
  • Hungarian: hol
  • Mansi:
    • Northern Mansi: хунь (hunʹ)
• Proto-Permic: *kod (see there for further descendants)
• Proto-Mordvinic: *ko-
  • Erzya: кода (koda, “how”), косо (koso, “where”)
• Proto-Finnic: *ku (see there for further descendants)

From *kuńćɜ:

• Samoyedic:
  • Nenets:
    • Forest Nenets: ? [script needed] (kuše)
• Ugric:
  • Hungarian: hogy
• Permic:
  • Komi-Zyrian: кыдз (kydź)
  • Udmurt: кызьы (kyźy)
• Mari:
  • Western Mari: кыче (kyče)
  • Eastern Mari: кузе (kuze)
• Finnic: ? *konsa

Further reading

• Entry #372 in Uralonet, online Uralic etymological database of the Hungarian Research Centre for Linguistics.