Reconstruction:Proto-Uralic/ku-

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.

Sometimes compared, especially by proponents of the Indo-Uralic hypothesis, with Proto-Indo-European *kʷ-, *kʷos.

*ku-

1. who
2. where

• *ko-

• Ugric:
  • Hungarian: hol
  • Mansi:
    • Northern Mansi: хунь (hunʹ)
• Proto-Permic: *kod (see there for further descendants)
• Proto-Mordvinic: *ko-
  • Erzya: кода (koda, “how”), косо (koso, “where”)
• Proto-Finnic: *ku (see there for further descendants)

From *kuńćɜ:^[1]

• Samoyedic:
  • Nenets:
    • Forest Nenets: ? [script needed] (kuše)
• Ugric:
  • Hungarian: hogy
• Permic:
  • Komi-Zyrian: кыдз (kydź)
  • Udmurt: кызьы (kyźy)
• Mari:
  • Western Mari: кыче (kyče)
  • Eastern Mari: кузе (kuze)
• Finnic: ? *konsa

• Entry #372 in Uralonet, online Uralic etymological database of the Hungarian Research Centre for Linguistics.