Reconstruction:Proto-Yeniseian/-ç

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.

Proto-Yeniseian

Alternative reconstructions

  • *-s (per Werner 2002)
  • *-s, *-sa (per Starostin 1994-2005)
  • *-s (per Helimski 2016, Fortescue-Vajda 2022)

Reconstruction notes

A palatal suffix is chosen over an alveolar one by Vajda (2024) based on intra-syllabic interactions that cause vowel raising in non-Ketic branches in the presence of both a palatal onset and a coda, and thus so adopted here.

Etymology

This suffix retained its productivity only in Ket -дис (singulative suffix), where it is found appended to *dej (“eye”).

Suffix

*-ç

  1. singulative noun marker
  2. noun marker denoting either a whole made from many parts or one of a pair
Derived terms
Proto-Yeniseian terms suffixed with *-ç
Reconstruction:Proto-Yeniseian/cewç
Reconstruction:Proto-Yeniseian/dejç
Reconstruction:Proto-Yeniseian/xʷag
Reconstruction:Proto-Yeniseian/ɬaws

Further reading

  • Helimski, Eugene (2016), “S-singulatives in Ket”, in Journal of language relationship, volume 14, number 3, →DOI, pages 157-163
  • Fortescue, Michael; Vajda, Edward (2022), Mid-Holocene Language Connections between Asia and North America (Brill's Studies in the Indigenous Languages of the Americas; 17)‎[1], Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, pages 269, 270
  • Vajda, Edward (2024), The Languages and Linguistics of Northern Asia: Language Families (The World of Linguistics [WOL]; 10.1)‎[2], volume 1, Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter Mouton, →DOI, →ISBN, pages 380, 426, 428, 440
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