Reconstruction:Proto-Yeniseian/ɬawn

This Proto-Yeniseian entry contains reconstructed terms and roots. As such, the term(s) in this entry are not directly attested, but are hypothesized to have existed based on comparative evidence.
This Proto-Yeniseian entry contains original research. The reconstruction in this entry is based on published research, but the specific form presented here is not found in prior works.

Proto-Yeniseian

Alternative reconstructions

  • *λon (per Werner 2002)
  • *rʲɔn (per Starostin 1994-2005)[1]
  • *dˡon (per Vajda-Werner 2022)
  • *tɬawn-ja (per Vajda 2024)
  • *ðon (per Cologne group 2023 & 2024. Pattern: l.1-n.1)

Etymology

Most likely related to Proto-Yeniseian *ɬaws (“vulva”); which if true would reflect a bare stem *ɬaw- for the two terms. This bare stem would then be appended with the singulative marker *-ç for the former, yielding *ɬaw-ç (one-lip), and animate plural marker *-n for this root, yielding *ɬaw-n (two-lips, i.e. the mouth).

Noun

*ɬawn (plural *ɬawn-ja-n)

  1. (anatomy) lip
    Synonym: *qon (Pumpokolic)

Descendants

  • Ketic:
    • Ket: (Central dialects) лён (lʲōˑn)
    • Yug: лөн (lōn)
  • Kottic:
    • Assan: (Klaproth) diana, (Müller, Pallas) etán (“lips”)
    • Kott: (Castrén) d'ân, d'an, d'ána

See also

  • Yeniseian entry guidelines § Historical bibliography

References

  1. ^ Starostin, G. S., editor (2007), Trudy po jazykoznaniju [Proceedings in Linguistics]‎[1] (in Russian), Moscow: Jazyki slavjanskix kulʹtur, →ISBN, page 164

Further reading

  • Bonmann, Svenja; Fries, Simon; Korobzow, Natalie; Günther, Laura; Hill, Eugen (2023), “'lip'”, in “Towards a New Reconstruction of the Proto-Yeniseian Sound System. Part I: Word-Initial Consonants”, in International Journal of Eurasian Linguistics‎[2], number 5, Brill, →DOI, →ISSN, page 64 of 39-82
  • Bonmann, Svenja; Fries, Simon; Korobzow, Natalie; Günther, Laura; Hill, Eugen (2023), “l.1 (Table 28 [cont.])”, in “Towards a New Reconstruction of the Proto-Yeniseian Sound System. Part I: Word-Initial Consonants”, in International Journal of Eurasian Linguistics‎[3], number 5, Brill, →DOI, →ISSN, page 71 of 39-82
  • Hill, Eugen; Fries, Simon; Korobzow, Natalie; Günther, Laura; Svenja, Bonmann (2024), “'lip'g”, in “Towards a New Reconstruction of the Proto-Yeniseian Sound System. Part II: Word-Final Consonants”, in International Journal of Eurasian Linguistics‎[4], number 6, Brill, →DOI, →ISSN, page 271 of 216-293
  • Hill, Eugen; Fries, Simon; Korobzow, Natalie; Günther, Laura; Svenja, Bonmann (2024), “Coda-n.1 (Table 21)”, in “Towards a New Reconstruction of the Proto-Yeniseian Sound System. Part II: Word-Final Consonants”, in International Journal of Eurasian Linguistics‎[5], number 6, Brill, →DOI, →ISSN, page 279 of 216-293
  • Vajda, Edward; Werner, Heinrich (2022), “*dˡon”, in Comparative-Historical Yeniseian Dictionary (Languages of the World/Dictionaries; 79, 80), volume 1, Muenchen: LINCOM GmbH, →ISBN, page 489
  • Vajda, Edward (2024), The Languages and Linguistics of Northern Asia: Language Families (The World of Linguistics [WOL]; 10.1)‎[6], volume 1, Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter Mouton, →DOI, →ISBN, page 386
  • Werner, Heinrich (2002), “(1) l'oˑn”, in Vergleichendes Wörterbuch der Jenissej-Sprachen, Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, →ISBN, page 14
  • Werner, Heinrich (2005), “lips”, in Die Jenissej-Sprachen des 18. Jahrhunderts, Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, →ISBN, page 307
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