Examples:
- Estonian pole (< *eipä ole)
- Hungarian nincs
- and, I believe, further sincs (< is nincs) 'also is not'
- Karelian eu ~ eule (< ei ole)
- Komi abu
- Skolt Sámi i´lla ~ i´lleäkku ~ i´llää ~ i´llä (< ij leäk)
- Udmurt övöl
Most of these examples are direct historically related equivalents of each other. Negation in Uralic languages is expressed with a negative verb conjugated for person (sometimes also tense) + the head verb in a "connegative" form. There seems to be a tendency to erode this, perhaps quite heavy, construction in the very common case "is not".
Running into such similarities is a big part of my fascination with Fenno-Ugric languages. The fundamental basics of grammar and things going on "beneath the surface" are very much the same across the board.
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