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Proto-Altaic: *mV́
Nostratic: Nostratic
Meaning: an interrogative root
Russian meaning: вопросительная основа
Turkic: *-mi
Mongolian: *-mu, -mi
Korean: *mɨ̀
Japanese: *mǝ́-si
Comments: SKE 147, АПиПЯЯ 297. Cf. perhaps also Evk. mu 'or' (in interrogative sentences) (Титов 1926, 94). Further Nostratic parallels of this grammaticalized interrogative stem see in ОСНЯ 2, 66-8.
altet-prnum,altet-meaning,altet-rusmean,altet-turc,altet-mong,altet-kor,altet-jap,altet-reference,

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