Reconstruction:Proto-Yeniseian/seŋʷ

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

  • *seŋ (per Starostin 1994-2005)[1]
  • *sēˑŋ (for Proto-Ketic, per Vajda-Werner 2022)
  • *seŋʷda (per Fortescue-Vajda 2022)

Etymology

Compared to Proto-Athabaskan *-zə̓tʼ (“liver”)[2] and Eyak sahd (“liver”).

Noun

*seŋʷ (plural *seŋʷ-Vŋ)

  1. (anatomy) liver; (and by extension) any vital internal organ

Descendants

  • Ketic:
    • Ket: сеӈ (sʲɛ̄ŋ, “liver”)[3]
    • ⇒ Ket: сэӈнин (sɛ́ŋnín), сэӈнан (sɛ́ŋnan, “stomach”, literally “vital organ-belly”)[4]
    • ⇒ Ket: сиӈдарэӈ (síŋdarɛŋ, “diaphragm”, literally “vital organ-of-bones [ribs]”)[5]
    • ⇒ Ket: мэнсиӈ (mɛ̄nsiŋ, “lungs”, literally “pair-vital organ”)[6]
    • Yug: сеӈ (sēŋ, “liver”)
    • ⇒ Yug: сэннян (sénʲnʲan, “stomach”, literally “vital-organ-belly”), сеӈниӈ (seŋnʲiŋ, “entrails”, literally “vital-organ-belly”)
  • Kottic:
    • ⇒ Kott: šičil (C.), šišil (“liver”) (H.)
  • Arinic:
    • ⇒ Arin: sal (“liver”) (H.)
    • ⇒? Arin: šintrun (“bowels”) (H.)
    • ⇒? Arin: šódoroŋ (“entrails”) (M., W., Kl.)
  • ⇒ Proto-Yeniseian: *seŋʷ-atɬ (“lungs”, literally “vital organ-pair”)[7]
    • Kottic:
      • ⇒ Kott: šišatɨn (H.), šičâtn (“lungs”) (C.)
    • Arinic:
      • ⇒ Arin: šišali (“lungs”) (H.)
  • ⇒ Proto-Yeniseian: *seŋʷ-puj (“heart”, literally “vital organ-heart”)[8]
    • Kottic:
      • Assan: šitábu (M., W., VW., Kl.), ščitabu (Kl.)
      • Kott: šítabu (M., Kl., W.), šitapu (H.), šitap (C.), šítabii (VW., W.)
    • Arinic:
      • Arin: šenoúgbu (M., W., VW., Kl.), šenebo (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=620&root=config
  2. ^ Leer, Jeff (1996), Comparative Athabaskan Lexicon‎[1], volume s/za-s/zE, Alaska Native Language Archive, page 56.b
  3. ^ Kotorova, Elizaveta; Nefedov, Andrey (2015), Большой словарь кетского языка, Münich: LINCOM, →ISBN, page 341
  4. ^ Kotorova, Elizaveta; Nefedov, Andrey (2015), Большой словарь кетского языка, Münich: LINCOM, →ISBN, page 339
  5. ^ Kotorova, Elizaveta; Nefedov, Andrey (2015), Большой словарь кетского языка, Münich: LINCOM, →ISBN, page 341
  6. ^ Kotorova, Elizaveta; Nefedov, Andrey (2015), Большой словарь кетского языка, Münich: LINCOM, →ISBN, page 117
  7. ^ Vajda, Edward; Werner, Heinrich (2022), “*sissatn/*sičatn”, in Comparative-Historical Yeniseian Dictionary (Languages of the World/Dictionaries; 79, 80), volume 2, Muenchen: LINCOM GmbH, →ISBN, page 808
  8. ^ Vajda, Edward; Werner, Heinrich (2022), “*sitʰa-pʰu”, in Comparative-Historical Yeniseian Dictionary (Languages of the World/Dictionaries; 79, 80), volume 2, Muenchen: LINCOM GmbH, →ISBN, page 809

Further reading

  • Bonmann, Svenja; Fries, Simon; Korobzow, Natalie; Günther, Laura; Hill, Eugen (2023), “'heart'”, in “Towards a New Reconstruction of the Proto-Yeniseian Sound System. Part I: Word-Initial Consonants”, in International Journal of Eurasian Linguistics‎[2], number 5, Brill, →DOI, →ISSN, page 63 of 39-82
  • Fortescue, Michael; Vajda, Edward (2022), “44.) ~*sejŋʷd()”, 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, pages 347-348
  • Vajda, Edward; Werner, Heinrich (2022), “*sēˑŋ (2)”, in Comparative-Historical Yeniseian Dictionary (Languages of the World/Dictionaries; 79, 80), volume 2, Muenchen: LINCOM GmbH, →ISBN, page 779
  • Werner, Heinrich (2002), “s'eˑŋ”, in Vergleichendes Wörterbuch der Jenissej-Sprachen, volume 2, Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, →ISBN, page 190
  • Werner, Heinrich (2005), “entrails, heart, liver, lungs”, in Die Jenissej-Sprachen des 18. Jahrhunderts, Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, →ISBN, pages 294, 302, 307, 308
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