Остык

Ket

Etymology

Borrowed from Russian остяк (ostjak, “Ostyak; Indigenous peoples of the Siberia”).[1]

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /⁶ostɨk/, [ɔs͉˩˧tɯk˥˩]

Noun

Остык (Òstɨk) m (plural Остыган)

  1. Ket person, Ket people (term used for men)

Usage notes

  • For Ket women, Ket Остыганам (Òstɨkanam, “Ket woman”) is used.
  • Traditionally, the Ket endonym was Кънаскет (Kə́nasked), literally meaning 'people of the daylight', which fell into disuse as evident by the recorded samples of the Ket language. The traditional term, also used by the neighbouring Yug people, was first recorded in 1823, by Julius von Klaproth as Könnijüng (Kənnijɨŋ) by the eighteenth century Ket speakers.[2]
    • Quoting Georg (2007:12), "[T]he fact that, contrary to what linguists and anthropologists may think to be "correct", speakers still use the term "Ostyak" to refer to themselves and their language[...]"[3]

References

  1. ^ Vajda, Edward; Werner, Heinrich (2022), Comparative-Historical Yeniseian Dictionary (Languages of the World/Dictionaries; 79, 80), Muenchen: LINCOM GmbH, →ISBN, page 528
  2. ^ Klaproth, Julius von (1823), Humboldt, Friedrich W. H. A. von, editor, Asia Polyglotta, Paris, page 167
  3. ^ Georg, Stefan (2007), A Descriptive Grammar of Ket (Yenisei-Ostyak) Part 1: Introduction, Phonology, Morphology, Cromwell: Global Oriental, →ISBN, page 12

Further reading

  • Werner, Heinrich (2002), Vergleichendes Wörterbuch der Jenissej-Sprachen, volume 2, Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, →ISBN, page 46
  • Kotorova, Elizaveta; Nefedov, Andrey (2015), Большой словарь кетского языка, Münich: LINCOM, →ISBN, page 277
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