Reconstruction:Proto-Uralic/kurke

Etymology
Likely onomatopoetic, though words of similar shape are found in numerous other languages of Eurasia: compare e.g. 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬.

Reconstruction
The reflexes show irregular phonetic variation: Finnic and Samoyedic suggest, while Samic and Mordvinic suggest or. Some reshaping due to onomatopoetic reasons is likely to have been involved.

Noun

 * 1)  crane

Descendants
From :
 * Enets:
 * Nenets:
 * Selkup:
 * Nenets:
 * Selkup:
 * Selkup:
 * Selkup:

From or :