Reconstruction:Proto-Uralic/pire

This Proto-Uralic 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-Uralic

Alternative forms

*pirä

Reconstruction

The Finnic and Saamic words suggest *e in the second syllable, but the Mordvinic forms suggest *pirä. The Finnic and Saamic words suggest *piire, but the Mordvinic forms with e suggest *pire.

Etymology

Sometimes compared with Proto-Mongolic *hergi- (“to go round”), whence Mongolian эргэх (ergex, “to turn”), Buryat эрьехэ (erʹjexe), эрьелдэхэ (erʹjeldexe), Kalmyk эргх (ergx, “to spin, go round”); Evenki хэркэми (hərkəmi, “to tie, bind together”), Manchu ᡥᡝᡵᡤᡳ (hergi, “to wind”); Proto-Indo-European *péri, whence Sanskrit परि (pari), Avestan 𐬞𐬀𐬌𐬭𐬌 (paⁱri), Ancient Greek περί (perí, “around”).

Noun

*pire

circle

Descendants

Samoyedic:
- >? Kamassian: [script needed] (pjeri, “around”)
- Selkup:
  - >? Northern Selkup:
    - Taz: пӱрэ (püre, “ring, circle”)
  - >? Southern Selkup:
    - Ket: пыр (“perimeter, round”)
  - ? Uncategorized Selkup : пӱру (püru), пӧру
Permic:
- >? Komi-Zyrian: бор (bor, “border, garden”)
Mordvinic:
- Erzya: пире (piŕe, “(enclosed) vegetable garden”), перька (peŕka, “around”), пирявкс (piŕavks, “fence”)
- Moksha: перьф (peŕf, “around”), перямс (peŕams, “to fence in, enclose”), перя (peŕa, “fence”)
Proto-Finnic: *piiri (see there for further descendants)
Proto-Samic: *pirë (see there for further descendants)

References

Entry #773 in Uralonet, online Uralic etymological database of the Hungarian Research Centre for Linguistics.

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