Gebéŋ

Pumpokol

Alternative forms

  • Gebèng (M.)
  • Gebeŋ (W.)

Etymology

Composed of *ge (“big”) +‎ béŋ (“land”), literally, “[people of the] high-riverbank”.[1]

Compare the Ostyak Yug ethnonym Chaibaŋ (“Yugh from the Dub-čes river region”), with identical compounding. Yugh and Pumpokol peoples were in close proximity and intermingled quite frequently, hence the amount of false glossings of Yugh terms for Pumpokol.

Proper noun

Gebéŋ (W.)

  1. Pumpokol people, a former Yeniseian people that went extinct in the 18th century

Derived terms

References

  1. ^ Vajda, Edward; Werner, Heinrich (2022), “gebéŋ”, in Comparative-Historical Yeniseian Dictionary (Languages of the World/Dictionaries; 79, 80), volume 1, Muenchen: LINCOM GmbH, →ISBN, page 315

Further reading

  • Werner, Heinrich (2005), Die Jenissej-Sprachen des 18. Jahrhunderts, Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, →ISBN, page 181
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