кеʼт

See also: Appendix:Variations of "ket"

Ket

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Yeniseian *kʰetʰ (“person”).[1][2]

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [kɛʔt˥˧], [kɛʔd̥˥˧]

Noun

кеʼт (keˀd) m (plural дэʼӈ)

  1. human being, person (not necessarily but often for male referents)
  2. friend, comrade

Pronoun

кеʼт (keˀd)

  1. one, someone; indefinite personal pronoun

Usage notes

  • Despite the masculine-class inflections and verbal conjugations, кеʼт can refer to both genders, though it is not often used to refer to women by Ket speakers.
  • Ket people most commonly refer to themselves and their language as Остык (Òstɨk), a variant of the term Ostyak, instead of кеʼт. An older endonym, less used but historically well-attested, is Кънаскет (Kə́nasked), literally meaning 'people of the daylight', also used by the closely related Yugs to refer to themselves.

References

  1. ^ https://starlingdb.org/cgi-bin/response.cgi?single=1&basename=%2fDATA%2fYENISEY%2fYENET&text_number=378&root=config
  2. ^ Vajda, Edward; Werner, Heinrich (2022), Comparative-Historical Yeniseian Dictionary (Languages of the World/Dictionaries; 79, 80), Muenchen: LINCOM GmbH, →ISBN, pages 464-465

Further reading

  • Werner, Heinrich (2002), Vergleichendes Wörterbuch der Jenissej-Sprachen, volume 1, Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, →ISBN, pages 420-421
  • Kotorova, Elizaveta; Nefedov, Andrey (2015), Большой словарь кетского языка, Münich: LINCOM, →ISBN, pages 227-228
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