Eskimo etymology : List with all references

Proto-Yupik: *ujvi

Eskimo etymology: Eskimo etymology

Meaning: intelligence, wits 1, to be wise 2, to be crazy 3

Russian Meaning: ум, разум 1, умный, мудрый 2, дурной, глупый 3

Chaplino: ujvíliʁwāʁaqā 'to dissuade, to argue out of', //ujvīnǝq (ʁ) 'sorcerer'

Chugach (AAY): ujjutu- 2, iɣuiʁ- neg. 3

Koniag (AAY): uswi 1, uswitu- 2, uswīʁ- neg. 3

Central Alaskan Yupik: uzvi 1, uzvitu- 2, uzvītǝ- neg. 3

Chevak (Peripheral): ujvi 1

Comparative Eskimo Dictionary: 388

Inupik etymology :

Proto-Inupik: *uivi-

Eskimo etymology: Eskimo etymology

Meaning: miser 1, discontent 2

Russian meaning: скупой 1, недовольный 2

SPI Dialects: Imaq ujvínaq, ujvízuɣātoq 2

Western Canadian Inupik: uivitu- 'to feel that everything is too expensive', uiviɣi- 'to find too little', uivinaq- 'to be too expensive'

WCI Dialects: Car? uivitu- 'to be vicious' [Schn.], Net uivituruq 1 [Ras.]

Eastern Canadian Inupik: uiviʁi(C)- 'to cheat, to harm', uivisaq- 'to cheat, to annoy, to to tease'

ECI Dialects: Lab uivisāC- 'to rape, to mistreat'

Comparative Eskimo Dictionary: 388

Nostratic etymology :

Eurasiatic: *HVJV ??

Meaning: thought, mind

Indo-European: *ō- <PIH *H-> ?

Altaic: Mong. ojun 'thought'

Uralic: ojwa

Dravidian: SDR *ej- 'know' (716)

Eskimo-Aleut: *ujvi

References: Cf. *HwVjV

Indo-European etymology :

Proto-IE: *ō- <PIH *H->

Meaning: to believe, to prophet

Hittite: ha- (I) 'vertrauen, glauben' (Tischler 120-121)

Latin: ōmen 'Vorzeichen'

Russ. meaning: верить, предсказывать

Uralic etymology :

Number: 671

Proto: *ojwa

> Nostratic: > Nostratic

English meaning: head

German meaning: Kopf, Haupt

Finnish: oiva 'sehr gut', dial. oima, oimo id., dial. oimi 'Vernunft, Verstand', oivallinen 'ausgezeichnet', oivalta- 'begreifen, erkennen, verstehen'

Estonian: oim, uim (gen. oimu, uimu) 'Verstand, Besinnung'

Saam (Lapp): oai've -iv- (N) 'head, intellect', åi'vē (L) 'Kopf, Verstand', vŭă͕ī̯v̄^ė (Ko. P), ^vĭ̮ǝ̑ī̯vɛ (T), vŭǝī̯v^(e) (Kld.), vŭαī̯v^e, vŭăī̯v̄a, vuǝivī (Not.) 'Kopf, Haupt'

Mordovian: ujft́e- (M) 'начать'

Mari (Cheremis): wuj (KB U B) 'Kopf; Ende, Wipfel'

Mansi (Vogul): (āwa (So.) 'Bärenkopf' - rejected by Redei)

Nenets (Yurak): ŋäewa (O) 'Kopf', ŋäewaj (O) 'Gehirn'

Enets (Yen): abuði (Ch.), eba (B), ewa (L) 'Kopf', ebē (B), ae (Ch.) 'Gehirn'

Nganasan (Tawgi): ŋaiwuo, ŋoiwuo, ? (Mess.) aiba

Janhunen's version: (11) *ojwa

Sammalahti's version: *ojwa

Addenda: Lüd. oivaĺĺińe 'ausgezeichnet, richtig'; Mot. айбай 'первый', Karag. aiba-da 'Kopf'