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Reconstruction:Proto-Uralic/koje

This Proto-Uralic 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-Uralic

Noun

*koje

  1. male

Derived terms
  • *kojema (“male human”)
  • *kojera (“male animal”)
  • *kojeśɜ (“twenty”)

Descendants
  • ? Samoyedic:
    • Tundra Nenets: [script needed] (xājūpā, “to be married”) (of a woman)
  • Mansi: *kuj
  • Khanty:
  • Samic: *kuojë
    • Kildin Sami: куйй (kujj)
    • Ter Sami: [Term?] (kɨjj)

Coordinate terms
  • *näjɜ (“woman”)

Etymology 2

Likely akin to *kaja-.

Noun

*koje

  1. dawn
Descendants

Further reading
  • Entry #329 in Uralonet, online Uralic etymological database of the Research Institute for Linguistics, Hungarian Academy of Sciences.
  • Entry #330 in Uralonet, online Uralic etymological database of the Research Institute for Linguistics, Hungarian Academy of Sciences.
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