Studies in Uralic ­Etymology IV: Ob-Ugric Etymologies
Studies in Uralic ­Etymology IV: Ob-Ugric Etymologies

Summary/Abstract: This paper is the fourth part in a series of studies that present additions to the corpus of etymological comparisons between the Uralic languages, drawing data from all the major branches of the language family. It includes both previously unnoticed cognates that can be added to already established Uralic cognate sets, as well as a few completely new reconstructions of Uralic word roots. In this fourth part new Uralic etymologies for 18 Ob-Ugric (Khanty and Mansi) words are discussed. The etymologized words are Proto-Mansi (PMs) *äɣt ’channel, head of a river’ (< PU *wiksi/*wiski), Proto-Khanty (PKh) *čǖɣ ’mist’ (< PU *čäki), PKh *či̮ji̮, PMs *šāĺ ’true, truth’ (< PU *čoďi), PKh *čɔɔp, PMs *šup ’piece, block of wood’ (< PU *či̮ppa- ’cut, notch (wood)’), PKh *jiɣ, PMs *jäɣ ’father’ (< PU *ekä), PKh *jil- ’go, visit’, PMs *jäl- ’go, walk’ (< PU *elä- ’live, visit’), PKh *jēm ’taboo’ (< PU *jemä), PKh *jipǝḷ ’shadow’ (< PU *eji ’night’ + *pälä ’side’), PKh *küć- ’track, follow’ (< PU *küji-), PKh *kājǝm, PMs *kūĺmǝ ’ashes’ (< PU *kaďa- ’leave’), PMs *kär- ’cut, be sharp’ (< PU *kirä-), PKh *lǟnt ’corn, grain’ (< PU *sewi- ’eat’), PMs *lūp-luw ’shoulder-blade’ (< PU *lapa ’shoulder’ + *luwi ’bone’), PKh *mūɣǝt ’anabranch, side channel of a river’ (< PU *mi̮tka), PKh *pǟɣǝl- ’forge’ (< PU *peksä-), PMs *tim- ’turn soft’, PKh *tintǝl-, PMs *tintǝl- ’soften (skins)’ (< PU *tejmi-), PKh *tam ’trapping pit’, PMs *tam ’hunting fence’ (< PU *tuma), and PKh *wi̮i̮č ’border’ (< PU *woča ’fence’). The principles of reconstruction and the citation of lexical material are explained in the first paper of the series (Luobbal Sámmol Sámmol Ánte (Aikio) 2013).

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