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Reconstruction:Proto-Ugric/mańćɜ
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This Proto-Ugric 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-Ugric
Etymology 1
Uncertain.
- The term may may be an Indo-Iranian borrowing, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *mon-. Compare Sanskrit मनुष्य (manuṣyá)).
- Alternatively from Proto-Uralic *mënɜ- (“to say”).
Descendants
Etymology 2
May be ultimately identical to the above etymology, via the concept of family, clan, or phratry and the sense ‘saga, tales of (heroic) deeds, the story of a family’.
Alternative forms
- *maćɜ
Descendants
- Hungarian: mese (“tale”)
Further reading
- (etymology 1):
- Entry #1799 in Uralonet, online Uralic etymological database of the Hungarian Research Centre for Linguistics.
- magyar in Gerstner, Károly (ed.). Új magyar etimológiai szótár. (’New Etymological Dictionary of Hungarian’). Beta version. Budapest, MTA Nyelvtudományi Intézet / Magyar Nyelvtudományi Kutatóközpont, 2011–2022. (Research Institute for Linguistics, Hungary). Language abbreviations
- (etymology 2):
- Entry #1800 in Uralonet, online Uralic etymological database of the Hungarian Research Centre for Linguistics.
- mese in Gerstner, Károly (ed.). Új magyar etimológiai szótár. (’New Etymological Dictionary of Hungarian’). Beta version. Budapest, MTA Nyelvtudományi Intézet / Magyar Nyelvtudományi Kutatóközpont, 2011–2022. (Research Institute for Linguistics, Hungary). Language abbreviations
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