Kamas malmi ‘husband of daughter or younger sister’

This article presents an etymology for the currently unetymologized Kamas kinship term malmi, in older sources manmi, meaning ‘husband of daughter or younger sister’. It is suggested that the term is a compound made up of the two Proto Samoyed in-law terms *wänə̑, meaning ‘in-law’, and *wijə̑, meani...

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Main Author: Klumpp, Gerson
Format: Other/Unknown Material
Language:English
Published: Helsingin yliopiston kirjasto 2022
Subjects:
kielitiede
etymologia
sanat
samojedikielet
kamassin kieli
linguistics
etymology
words
Samoyedic languages
Kamassian language
samojed*
samoyed*
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10138/342423
https://doi.org/10.31885/9789515180858.17
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Summary:This article presents an etymology for the currently unetymologized Kamas kinship term malmi, in older sources manmi, meaning ‘husband of daughter or younger sister’. It is suggested that the term is a compound made up of the two Proto Samoyed in-law terms *wänə̑, meaning ‘in-law’, and *wijə̑, meaning ‘son-in-law’.

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