12-04-2023, 11:00 AM
(12-04-2023, 10:41 AM)Jaska Wrote: Queequeg:
Quote:“Where does the "jə"-part in the suggested Proto Uralic form *kojəra ‘male [domestic?] animal’ actually come from?”
There are both underived cognates from *kojǝ ‘male’ and derived cognates from *kojǝ-ra ‘male animal’:
1. Skolt Saami kuojjă̮ (+Kld T) ’man, husband’ ~ Mansi East χoj, West kuj, North χuj ’male’ ~ Khanty East ku, kuj-, South/North χoj ’male, man’.
2. Finnish koira ‘dog’, koiras ‘male animal’ ~ Komi ki̮r, ki̮r-pon, ki̮re̮s ’male dog’ ~ Mansi South kɛ̮̄r, West kē̮r, North χār ’male animal, reindeer ox, stallion’ ~ Khanty East kar, South χor, North χar ’male animal, reindeer ox, stallion’ ~ Hungarian here ’drone bee; testicle’ ~ Samoyedic *korå ‘male, male reindeer, stallion, ox, ram’.
It almost looks like that these are two different words, first one being based on something like https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Reconstru.../xuj%D1%8C and the second one being based on the original Uralic word. Finnish koiras "male animal" admittedly is a bit problematic in this respect.