Reconstruction:Proto-Yeniseian/potʳ

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

  • *pʰəˀλ (per Werner 2002)
  • *pəˀr (per Starostin 1994-2005)[1]
  • *pʰʌˀλ (per Vajda-Werner 2022)

Reconstruction notes

Plural Kott terms, furan and futn (C.), reflect two different actualizations of the retroflex coda *-tʳ before the animate plural *-n.

Etymology

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Noun

*potʳ (plural *potʳ-n)

  1. (zoology, ornithology) merganser, common merganser (Mergus merganser)
    Coordinate terms: *ban (“duck”), *bix (“loon”), *tʳaɢa (“a kind of diving duck”), *cam (“goose”), *cijga (“swan”), *ɟex (“wood grouse”)

Descendants

  • Ketic:
    • Ket: хъʼль (hʌˀlʲ)[2]
    • Ostyak Yug: fʌr (C.; 19th century recording)
      • Yug: фъʼр (fʌˀr)
      • → Southern Selkup: пурь (pur’), пуря (purja, “duck, Anas clangula”)
  • Kottic:
    • Kott: fur (singular), furan, futn (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=459&root=config
  2. ^ Kotorova, Elizaveta; Nefedov, Andrey (2015), Большой словарь кетского языка, Münich: LINCOM, →ISBN, page 197

Further reading

  • Vajda, Edward; Werner, Heinrich (2022), “*pʰʌˀλ (1)”, in Comparative-Historical Yeniseian Dictionary (Languages of the World/Dictionaries; 79, 80), volume 2, Muenchen: LINCOM GmbH, →ISBN, page 592
  • Vajda, Edward (2024), “*potʳ, *potʳ-n”, in The Languages and Linguistics of Northern Asia: Language Families (The World of Linguistics [WOL]; 10.1)‎[1], volume 1, Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter Mouton, →DOI, →ISBN, page 412
  • Werner, Heinrich (2002), “(2) hʌˀl' (I)”, in Vergleichendes Wörterbuch der Jenissej-Sprachen, volume 1, Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, →ISBN, page 342
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