Reconstruction:Proto-Yeniseian/siɬja

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

  • *siλə (per Werner 2002)
  • *sir₁ (per Starostin 1994-2005)[1]
  • *sīˑλ, *sīˑλʌ (per Vajda-Werner 2022)
  • *siɬ (per Fortescue-Vajda 2022)
  • *s?ir₂ (per Cologne group. Pattern: s.1-l.3)

Etymology

Composed of *siɬ (“heat”) +‎ *-ja (nominalizer suffix), literally, “heat-season”. Compared to Proto-Athabaskan *səɬ (“heat, sweat”)[2], Navajo neezílí (“it is warm, tepid”) and Navajo -ZIIL (warm, tepid, lukewarm).

Noun

*siɬja (no plural)

  1. (time) summer

Descendants

  • Ketic:
    • Imbak Ket: sɨle (Mes.; Eed-Šeš dialect)
    • Imbak Ket: síle, síre (M.), sil' (Ad.)
      • Ket: силь (sʲīˑlʲ, singular) (Southern dialects)[3]
      • Ket: силе (sʲiˑlʲe, singular) (Central and Northern dialects)
    • Yug: сир (sīr, singular), сириӈ (sīriŋ, plural)
  • Kottic:
    • ⇒ Kott: šilpaŋ (C.), šelpan (singular) (H.), šilpaŋán, šilpakŋ (plural) (C.)
  • Arinic:
  • Pumpokolic:
    • Pumpokol: tülle (M.)

See also

Seasons in Proto-Yeniseian (layout · text) · category
*xidja (“spring”) *siɬja (“summer”) *qogʷja (“autumn”) *tɬewtja (“winter”)
  • Proto-Yeniseian entry guidelines § Bibliography

References

  1. ^ https://starlingdb.org/cgi-bin/response.cgi?root=config&morpho=0&basename=%2FDATA%2FYENISEY%2FYENET&first=1&off=&text_meaning=summer&method_meaning=substring&ic_meaning=on&sort=proto
  2. ^ Leer, Jeff (1996), Comparative Athabaskan Lexicon‎[1], volume s/za-s/zE, Alaska Native Language Archive, page 41
  3. ^ Kotorova, Elizaveta; Nefedov, Andrey (2015), Большой словарь кетского языка, Münich: LINCOM, →ISBN, page 346

Further reading

  • Fortescue, Michael; Vajda, Edward (2022), “45.) ~*siɬ”, 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 348
  • Vajda, Edward; Werner, Heinrich (2022), “*sīˑλʌ”, in Comparative-Historical Yeniseian Dictionary (Languages of the World/Dictionaries; 79, 80), volume 2, Muenchen: LINCOM GmbH, →ISBN, page 800
  • Vajda, Edward (2024), “*siɬ-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 406
  • Werner, Heinrich (2002), “1s'iˑl'”, in Vergleichendes Wörterbuch der Jenissej-Sprachen, Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, →ISBN, page 206
  • Werner, Heinrich (2005), “summer”, in Die Jenissej-Sprachen des 18. Jahrhunderts, Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, →ISBN, page 326
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