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Reconstruction:Proto-Samoyedic/korå

This Proto-Samoyedic entry contains reconstructed words 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-Samoyedic

Etymology

From Proto-Uralic *kojera (“male animal”).

Noun

*korå

  1. male animal
  2. reindeer bull

Descendants
  • Nganasan: куру
  • Enets:
    • Forest Enets: [Term?] (kura)
    • Tundra Enets: [Term?] (kura)
  • Nenets:
    • Forest Nenets: [script needed] (kōrrăə)
    • Tundra Nenets: хора (χōrā)
  • Selkup: *qorɨ
    • Northern: [script needed] (qorɨ)
  • Kamassian: [script needed] (kora)
  • ? → Proto-Chukotko-Kamchatkan: *qora
    • Chukchi: ӄораӈы (qoraŋə)
    • Koryak: qojaŋa
      • → Central Siberian Yupik: [script needed] (qujŋiq)

See also

References
  • Janhunen, Juha. 1977. Samojedischer Wortschatz: Gemeinsamojedische Etymologien ('Samoyedic Vocabulary: Common Samoyedic Etymologies'). Castreanianumin toimitteita 17. Helsinki: Suomalais-Ugrilainen Seura. →ISBN.
  • Fortescue, Michael. 2005. Comparative Chukotko-Kamchatkan dictionary. (Trends in Linguistic Documentation 23.) Berlin – New York: de Gruyter. →ISBN
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