Reconstruction:Proto-Yeniseian/-tɬijt

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

  • *-kit, *-kiˀit (per Werner 2002)
  • *-git, *-giʔit (per Starostin 1994-2005)[1]
  • *-tʲej (per Khabtagaeva 2019)[2]
  • *-kiːt (per Vajda-Werner 2022)

Reconstruction notes

Onset *tɬ- is inferred from derived terms and other reconstructions that yield k- in Ketic and Kottic but l- in Arinic and Pumpokolic (cf. *tɬewtja (“winter”).)

Etymology

Compared to Proto-Athabaskan *-tɬαɣ̇ ~ -ɬ-tɬαɣ̇ (“to rub, to anoint with, to smear”).[3] Perhaps also related to *tɬiwdʳ (“oil, lard, suet, tallow”), see there for more cognates in Athabaskan languages.

Verb

*-tɬijt (action nominal *tɬijt-Vŋʷ)

  1. (transitive) to rub, to smear, to spread
Derived terms
  • *tɬijq (“snake, serpent”)
  • *-xʷagtɬijt (“to carve, to plane”, literally “wood-rub”)

Descendants

  • Ketic:
    • Ket: кит (-kīˑt) (verb)
      • ⇒ Ket: тъгит (tʌ́ɣit, “to salt”)
    • Yug: киит (-kiːt) (verb and action nominal)
    • ⇒? Yug: киʼт (-kiˀt, “to pester a woman”) (verb)
  • Kottic:
    • Kott: tʰa-kît (“to smear”) (C.)
      • ⇒ Kott: hata-čei (“to kindle”, literally “fire-rub”) (C.)

See also

  • Proto-Yeniseian entry guidelines § Bibliography

References

  1. ^ https://starlingdb.org/cgi-bin/response.cgi?single=1&basename=%2fDATA%2fYENISEY%2fYENET&text_number=329&root=config
  2. ^ Khabtagaeva, Bayarma (2019), Language Contact in Siberia: Turkic, Mongolic, and Tungusic Loanwords in Yeniseian (The languages of Asia series; 19)‎[1], Brill, →ISBN, page 212
  3. ^ Leer, Jeff (1996), Comparative Athabaskan Lexicon‎[2], volume tLa-tLu, Alaska Native Language Archive, page 3

Further reading

  • Fortescue, Michael; Vajda, Edward (2022), “PY *tɬijt”, in Mid-Holocene Language Connections between Asia and North America (Brill's Studies in the Indigenous Languages of the Americas; 17)‎[3], Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 269
  • 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)‎[4], Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 317
  • Vajda, Edward; Werner, Heinrich (2022), “*kiːt”, in Comparative-Historical Yeniseian Dictionary (Languages of the World/Dictionaries; 79, 80), volume 1, Muenchen: LINCOM GmbH, →ISBN, page 404
  • Vajda, Edward (2024), “*ij: *tɬijt”, in The Languages and Linguistics of Northern Asia: Language Families (The World of Linguistics [WOL]; 10.1)‎[5], volume 1, Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter Mouton, →DOI, →ISBN, page 413
  • Werner, Heinrich (2002), “1kit/3kiːt (jug.)”, in Vergleichendes Wörterbuch der Jenissej-Sprachen, volume 1, Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, →ISBN, page 430
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