Reconstruction:Proto-Yeniseian/an

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

  • *ʔäń, *xäń (per Starostin 1994-2005)[1]
  • *an, *en (per Khabtagaeva 2019)
  • *an, *en (per Vajda-Werner 2022)
  • *pajn (per Fortescue-Vajda 2022)

Etymology

Compared with Proto-Athabaskan *hαn, *ha̓n (“river, body of water”),[2], Eyak ʔãh (“watering of eyes”) and Tlingit héen (“water”), heen (“to down with water, to mix with water”).[3]

Noun

*an (plural *an-ja-n)

  1. (hydrology) water, a large body of water
  2. (hydrology) wave, undulation

Descendants

  • Ketic:
    • Ket: онеӈ (ɔnʲéŋ, “ebb”)[4]
    • ⇒ Imbak Ket: ânbakŋ (“waves”, plural, literally “water-pull”) (C.; 19th century recording)
    • ⇒ Imbak Ket: baén (“wave”, literally “wind-water”) (Ad.)
      • Ket: баянь (bajanʲ) (Northern dialects)
  • Kottic:
    • Kott: en, ên (“wave”, singular), ênaŋ (“waves”, plural) (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=49&root=config
  2. ^ Leer, Jeff (1996), Comparative Athabaskan Lexicon‎[1], volume (h)a, Alaska Native Language Archive, page 6
  3. ^ Twitchell, X̱ʼunei Lance (2020), Tlingit Online Dictionary, Juneau, Alaska: Independently published, supported by Goldbelt Heritage Foundation and the University of Alaska Southeast, →ISBN, page 107
  4. ^ Khabtagaeva, Bayarma (2019), “Ket ɔnéŋ”, in Language Contact in Siberia: Turkic, Mongolic, and Tungusic Loanwords in Yeniseian (The languages of Asia series; 19)‎[2], Brill, →ISBN, page 366
  5. ^ Kotorova, Elizaveta; Nefedov, Andrey (2015), Большой словарь кетского языка, Münich: LINCOM, →ISBN, page 88

Further reading

  • Fortescue, Michael; Vajda, Edward (2022), “119.) ~*pajn”, 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 384
  • Vajda, Edward; Werner, Heinrich (2022), “*an (9) > *en”, in Comparative-Historical Yeniseian Dictionary (Languages of the World/Dictionaries; 79, 80), volume 1, Muenchen: LINCOM GmbH, →ISBN, page 43
  • Vajda, Edward (2024), The Languages and Linguistics of Northern Asia: Language Families (The World of Linguistics [WOL]; 10.1)‎[4], volume 1, Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter Mouton, →DOI, →ISBN, page 430
  • Werner, Heinrich (2002), “án'bɔk”, in Vergleichendes Wörterbuch der Jenissej-Sprachen, volume 1, Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, →ISBN, page 38
  • Werner, Heinrich (2002), “en/ên (kot.)”, in Vergleichendes Wörterbuch der Jenissej-Sprachen, volume 1, Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, →ISBN, page 267
  • Werner, Heinrich (2005), “waves”, in Die Jenissej-Sprachen des 18. Jahrhunderts, Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, →ISBN, page 332
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