Reconstruction:Proto-Yeniseian/tajcVŋʷ

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

  • *tʰeg, *tʰegam (per Werner 2002)
  • *täʔk-, *täk- (per Starostin 1994-2005)[1]
  • *tʰagɯm, *tʰaɣum, *tʰekam (per Vajda-Werner 2022)

Etymology

Composed of *tajc (“fallen snow”) +‎ *-Vŋʷ (adjectival suffix), literally “snow-colored”.

Adjective

*tajcVŋʷ (adjectival form)

  1. white, white-colored
Derived terms
  • *tajcVŋʷše (“rabbit”, literally “white-thing”)

Descendants

  • Ketic:
    • Imbak Ket: tegana (Kl.), tagɨ́m, tagúm (Ad.)
      • Ket: тагым (táɣɨm) (Central Ket dialects)[2]
  • Kottic:
    • Assan: tégama (M., W., Kl., VW.), tiekama (Kl.)
    • Kott: tégama (M., W., Kl., VW.), tekam, tekama (H.), tʰêgam, tʰêkam (C.)
  • Arinic:
    • Arin: taːma (M., Kl.), t'aːma (W., VW.), tama, tamo (H.)
  • Pumpokolic:
    • Pumpokol: támcho (M.), támxo (VW., Kl.; Metathesized.)

See also

Colors in Proto-Yeniseian
     *tajcVŋʷ      *tuwVŋʷ      *çurVŋʷ      *ɢojqowɬVŋʷ              *çajVŋʷ
  • Proto-Yeniseian entry guidelines § Bibliography

References

  1. ^ https://starlingdb.org/cgi-bin/response.cgi?single=1&basename=%2fDATA%2fYENISEY%2fYENET&text_number=683&root=config
  2. ^ Kotorova, Elizaveta; Nefedov, Andrey (2015), Большой словарь кетского языка, Münich: LINCOM, →ISBN, page 363

Further reading

  • Bonmann, Svenja; Fries, Simon; Korobzow, Natalie; Günther, Laura; Hill, Eugen (2023), “'white'”, 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 54 of 39-82
  • Bonmann, Svenja; Fries, Simon; Korobzow, Natalie; Günther, Laura; Hill, Eugen (2023), “t.2 (Table 28)”, 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 70 of 39-82
  • Hill, Eugen; Fries, Simon; Korobzow, Natalie; Günther, Laura; Svenja, Bonmann (2024), “footnote d”, in “Towards a New Reconstruction of the Proto-Yeniseian Sound System. Part II: Word-Final Consonants”, in International Journal of Eurasian Linguistics‎[3], number 6, Brill, →DOI, →ISSN, page 266 of 216-293
  • Vajda, Edward; Werner, Heinrich (2022), “*tʰekam”, in Comparative-Historical Yeniseian Dictionary (Languages of the World/Dictionaries; 79, 80), Muenchen: LINCOM GmbH, →ISBN, page 873
  • Vajda, Edward (2024), “*tajc, *tajc-[]”, in 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, page 415
  • Werner, Heinrich (2002), “táγɨm”, in Vergleichendes Wörterbuch der Jenissej-Sprachen, Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, →ISBN, page 249
  • Werner, Heinrich (2005), “white”, in Die Jenissej-Sprachen des 18. Jahrhunderts, Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, →ISBN, page 333
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