Reconstruction:Proto-Yeniseian/-ɬaw

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

  • *-lʲa (per Vajda-Werner 2022)
  • *-ɬa (per Fortescue-Vajda 2022)

Etymology

Derived from Proto-Yeniseian *ɬaw (“extension, protrusion”), see there for more.

Suffix

*-ɬaw

  1. diminutive or emphatic suffix
    ‎*ajt (“alive; quick”) + ‎*-ɬaw → ‎*ajtɬaw (“quite fast; quite alive”) (cf. Attila (Hunnic anthroponym))[1]
    ‎*xur (“wet, moist”) + ‎*-ɬaw → ‎*xurɬaw (“dew, dewy”) (cf. Arin kurlo (“dew”))
Derived terms
Category Proto-Yeniseian terms suffixed with *-ɬaw not found

References

  1. ^ Bonmann, Svenja; Fries, Simon (2025), “Linguistic Evidence Suggests That Xiōng-nú and Huns Spoke the Same Paleo-Siberian Language”, in Transactions of the Philological Society‎[1], volume 0, →DOI, page 15 of 1-24

Further reading

  • Fortescue, Michael; Vajda, Edward (2022), “34.) ~*ɬaw”, in Mid-Holocene Language Connections between Asia and North America (Brill's Studies in the Indigenous Languages of the Americas; 17)‎[2], Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 342
  • Vajda, Edward; Werner, Heinrich (2022), “*-lʲa”, in Comparative-Historical Yeniseian Dictionary (Languages of the World/Dictionaries; 79, 80), volume 1, Muenchen: LINCOM GmbH, →ISBN, page 472
  • Vajda, Edward (2024), The Languages and Linguistics of Northern Asia: Language Families (The World of Linguistics [WOL]; 10.1)‎[3], volume 1, Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter Mouton, →DOI, →ISBN, page 439
This article is issued from Wiktionary. The text is available under Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 unless otherwise noted. Additional terms may apply for the media files.