бинь

Ket

Etymology 1

Inherited from Proto-Yeniseian *bin (“self”, personal self-referring pronoun).[1][2]

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /¹bin/, [biˑnʲ˧]

Pronoun

бинь (bīnʲ)

  1. self, oneself; personal intensive or reflexive self-referring pronoun
Usage notes
  • Apart from its usual function as a pronoun, бинь can also function as a verb incorporate as a peg prefix (or as a pseudo-incorporate) in prefix position P7 to prevent the verb base and the adjacent personal-alignment slot (the slots P0 and P1) in a verb conjugation from occupying the initial syllable position.[3]
    • To quote Georg (2007:239): “Usually, there is no known/knowable instigator of this process, and [...] the [usage of] pronoun bīn indicates that the metaphor underlying these formations is that certain objects undergo state-changing processes "by themselves" or "of their own accord".”
    • One such example is ись ([l²]-sʲ⁰), where the insertion of бинь prevents the ungrammatical formation *дись («*di¹-sʲ⁰»), in lieu of биньдись («bin⁷-di¹-sʲ⁰», “I am dressed.”).

Etymology 2

Inherited from Proto-Ketic *bin ~ *ben (intensive or mirative preverbal aprticle).[4]

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /¹bin/, [biˑnʲ˧]

Particle

бинь (bīnʲ)

  1. intensive or mirative particle, preverbal particle to mark new and unexpected information for the speaker

Etymology 3

Inherited from Proto-Ketic *bin (“piece of fish”).[5]

Perhaps related to Ket бенэ (béne, “different; separated in two parts, into equal parts, into halves, apart; open, undone”), itself from Proto-Ketic *béne (“in different places or direction; open, undone; apart, in two”).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /¹bin/, [biˑnʲ˧]

Noun

бинь (bīnʲ) n (plural биняӈ)

  1. piece of fish, fish cutlets

References

  1. ^ https://starlingdb.org/cgi-bin/response.cgi?single=1&basename=%2fDATA%2fYENISEY%2fYENET&text_number=754&root=config
  2. ^ Vajda, Edward; Werner, Heinrich (2022), Comparative-Historical Yeniseian Dictionary (Languages of the World/Dictionaries; 79, 80), Muenchen: LINCOM GmbH, →ISBN, pages 138-139
  3. ^ Georg, Stefan (2007), A Descriptive Grammar of Ket (Yenisei-Ostyak) Part 1: Introduction, Phonology, Morphology, Cromwell: Global Oriental, →ISBN, pages 239-241
  4. ^ Vajda, Edward; Werner, Heinrich (2022), Comparative-Historical Yeniseian Dictionary (Languages of the World/Dictionaries; 79, 80), Muenchen: LINCOM GmbH, →ISBN, page 142
  5. ^ Vajda, Edward; Werner, Heinrich (2022), Comparative-Historical Yeniseian Dictionary (Languages of the World/Dictionaries; 79, 80), Muenchen: LINCOM GmbH, →ISBN, pages 124-125, 142-143

Further reading

  • Werner, Heinrich (2002), Vergleichendes Wörterbuch der Jenissej-Sprachen, volume 1, Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, →ISBN, pages 129, 130
  • Kotorova, Elizaveta; Nefedov, Andrey (2015), Большой словарь кетского языка, Münich: LINCOM, →ISBN, page 120
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