Reconstruction:Proto-Yeniseian/wespewtɬ

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

  • *espʰəλ (per Werner 2002)
  • *ʔaspVr (per Starostin 1994-2005)[1]
  • *espʰɯλ, *aspʰɯλ (for Proto-Yeniseian), *ēˑspʰɯl (for Proto-Ketic, per Vajda-Werner 2022)
  • *eʧ.pur₁, *ec.pur₁ (per Cologne group. Pattern: X-s.1-h.1?-l.2)

Etymology

Composed of *wes (“sky”) +‎ *pewtɬja (“accumulation, growth”). Alternatively, according to Vajda (2024)[2], composed of *ejš (“sky”) +‎ *xur (“moisture, moist air”).

Noun

*wespewtɬ (plural *wespewtɬ-ja-n)

  1. (meteorology) cloud

Descendants

  • Ketic:
    • Ket: аспуль (áspulʲ), асьпуль (ásʲpulʲ) (Southern and Central dialects)[3]
    • Ket: асьвуль (ásʲvulʲ) (Sulomay dialect)
    • Yug: асфыл (ásfɨl)
  • Kottic:
    • Assan: ašparán (plural) (W.)
    • Kott: ašpar, ašpór (singular), ašparaŋ (M., C.), ašpɔ́raŋ (plural) (C.)
  • Arinic:
    • Arin: isprek (H.), esperaŋ (M.), ejšparaŋ (plural) (Str.)

See also

  • Proto-Yeniseian entry guidelines § Bibliography

References

  1. ^ https://starlingdb.org/cgi-bin/response.cgi?single=1&basename=%2fDATA%2fYENISEY%2fYENET&text_number=512&root=config
  2. ^ Vajda, Edward (2024), The Languages and Linguistics of Northern Asia: Language Families (The World of Linguistics [WOL]; 10.1)‎[1], volume 1, Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter Mouton, →DOI, →ISBN, page 404
  3. ^ Kotorova, Elizaveta; Nefedov, Andrey (2015), Большой словарь кетского языка, Münich: LINCOM, →ISBN, page 97

Further reading

  • Hill, Eugen; Fries, Simon; Korobzow, Natalie; Günther, Laura; Svenja, Bonmann (2024), “'cloud'c”, 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 263 of 216-293
  • Vajda, Edward; Werner, Heinrich (2022), “*aspʰɯλ < *es-pʰɯλ”, in Comparative-Historical Yeniseian Dictionary (Languages of the World/Dictionaries; 79, 80), volume 1, Muenchen: LINCOM GmbH, →ISBN, page 82
  • Werner, Heinrich (2002), “ás'pul'”, in Vergleichendes Wörterbuch der Jenissej-Sprachen, volume 1, Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, →ISBN, page 71
  • Werner, Heinrich (2005), “cloud”, in Die Jenissej-Sprachen des 18. Jahrhunderts, Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, →ISBN, page 288
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