Reconstruction:Proto-Yeniseian/qowč

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.
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

  • *qʌtʰə (per Werner 2002)
  • *qɨte, *χɨte (per Starostin 1994-2005)[1]
  • *qɯ̄ˑthe (per Khabtagaeva 2019)[2]
  • *qɯtʰe, *qɤtʰe (per Vajda-Werner 2022)
  • *ɢujči (per Fortescue-Vajda 2022)
  • *ɢowč, *qowčja, *ɢowčja (per Vajda 2024)
  • *qʰ?ɯt (per Cologne group. Pattern: q.1-t.1)

Etymology

Compared to Eyak ɢuˑǰih (“wolf”) and Tlingit g̱ooch (“wolf”).

Noun

*qowč (plural *qowč-ja-n)

  1. (zoology) wolf

Descendants

  • Ketic:
    • Imbak Ket: xuːt (Mes.; Eed-Šeš dialect)
    • Imbak Ket: kxɨ́ɨte (M., W.)
      • Ket: ӄыт (qɨ̄ˑt, singular), ӄътн (qʌtn, plural) (Southern dialects)[3]
      • Ket: ӄыте (qɨ̄ˑtʲe, singular), ӄытн (qɨ̄ˑtn, plural) (Central and Northern dialects)
    • Ostyak Yug: χɨ́ɨta, xýtta (M.; 18th century recordings), xyt (M.; 19th century recording)
      • Yug: хыт (χɨ̄t, singular), хътн (χʌtn, plural)
  • Arinic:
    • Arin: qut (M., Kl., W.), kuːt (Str.), kot (H.)
  • Pumpokolic:
    • Pumpokol: chótu (M.), xótu (W.)

See also

  • Proto-Yeniseian entry guidelines § Bibliography

References

  1. ^ https://starlingdb.org/cgi-bin/response.cgi?single=1&basename=%2fDATA%2fYENISEY%2fYENET&text_number=543&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 229
  3. ^ Kotorova, Elizaveta; Nefedov, Andrey (2015), Большой словарь кетского языка, Münich: LINCOM, →ISBN, page 298

Further reading

  • Fortescue, Michael; Vajda, Edward (2022), “98.) ~*ɢojǰ()”, 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 373
  • Vajda, Edward; Werner, Heinrich (2022), “*qɯtʰe/*qɤtʰe”, in Comparative-Historical Yeniseian Dictionary (Languages of the World/Dictionaries; 79, 80), volume 1, Muenchen: LINCOM GmbH, →ISBN, page 753
  • Vajda, Edward (2024), “*qowč-ja, [*ɢowč-ja?]”, in 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 422
  • Werner, Heinrich (2002), “1qɨˑt”, in Vergleichendes Wörterbuch der Jenissej-Sprachen, volume 2, Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, →ISBN, page 155
  • Werner, Heinrich (2005), “wolf”, in Die Jenissej-Sprachen des 18. Jahrhunderts, Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, →ISBN, page 334
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