Reconstruction:Proto-Yeniseian/pun

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

  • *pʰuˀn (per Werner 2002)
  • *puʔn (per Starostin 1994-2005)[1]
  • *pʰuˀn (per Vajda-Werner 2022)
  • *pun (per Cologne group 2023 & 2024. Pattern: h.1-n.1)[2][3]

Etymology

Possibly composed of *pon (small, little) +‎ *-m (feminine-class noun marker).

Noun

*pun (plural *pun-Vŋ)

  1. (sociology) daughter, female offspring
    Coordinate term: *pub (son, male offspring)

Descendants

  • Ketic:
    • Imbak Ket: bhuːn (M.), b'un (my daughter) (W.)
    • Ket: хуʼн (huˀn), хуʼнь (huˀnʲ, daughter; baby doll, puppet doll)[4]
    • Ostyak Yug: punna (M.)
      • Yug: фуʼн (fuˀn)
  • Kottic:
    • Assan: pun (M., Kl., W., VW.)
    • Kott: fun (C.), pfun (M., W., Kl.), pfeum (W., Kl.), pun'a (H.)

See also

  • Proto-Yeniseian entry guidelines § Bibliography

References

  1. ^ https://starlingdb.org/cgi-bin/response.cgi?single=1&basename=%2fDATA%2fYENISEY%2fYENET&text_number=495&root=config
  2. ^ Bonmann, Svenja; Fries, Simon; Korobzow, Natalie; Günther, Laura; Hill, Eugen (2023), “h.1)”, in “Towards a New Reconstruction of the Proto-Yeniseian Sound System. Part I: Word-Initial Consonants”, in International Journal of Eurasian Linguistics[1], number 5, Brill, →DOI, →ISSN, page 71 of 39-82
  3. ^ Hill, Eugen; Fries, Simon; Korobzow, Natalie; Günther, Laura; Svenja, Bonmann (2024), “Coda-n.1”, in “Towards a New Reconstruction of the Proto-Yeniseian Sound System. Part II: Word-Final Consonants”, in International Journal of Eurasian Linguistics[2], number 6, Brill, →DOI, →ISSN, page 279 of 216-293
  4. ^ Kotorova, Elizaveta; Nefedov, Andrey (2015), Большой словарь кетского языка, Münich: LINCOM, →ISBN, page 195

Further reading

  • Fortescue, Michael; Vajda, Edward (2022), “PY *u”, 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 268
  • Vajda, Edward; Werner, Heinrich (2022), “*pʰuˀn (1, 2)”, in Comparative-Historical Yeniseian Dictionary (Languages of the World/Dictionaries; 79, 80), Muenchen: LINCOM GmbH, →ISBN, page 583
  • 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, pages 377, 402
  • Vajda, Edward (2024), “*pun (Tab. 15)”, 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 412
  • Werner, Heinrich (2002), “²huˀn (I)”, in Vergleichendes Wörterbuch der Jenissej-Sprachen, Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, →ISBN, page 331
  • Werner, Heinrich (2005), “daughter”, in Die Jenissej-Sprachen des 18. Jahrhunderts, Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, →ISBN, page 290