тань

Ket

Etymology 1

From earlier *-tʰan (“gird, put on a belt”, verb base).[1][2]

Compared to Kott t̔êg, t̔êx (belt, girdle)[3][4] by Sergej A. Starostin (SLDB), but CHYD clearly distinguishes the two terms apart.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /¹tan/, [taˑnʲ˧] [Action nominal]
  • IPA(key): /…tan/, […taˑnʲ] ~ […taːnʲ] [Finite verb]

Verb

тань (tānʲ, [a⁴]-[n²]-tan⁰) (action nominal, conjugation class I or IV)

  1. girding, the act of girding; encircling with a long, slender object, the act of encircling with a long, slender object [Action nominal]
  2. (transitive, telic) subject girds (a waist); subject puts a belt (on something) [Conjugation class I]
  3. (intransitive, reflexive, telic) subject girds (theirselves waist) subject puts a belt (on theirselves' waist) [Conjugation class IV]

Etymology 2

Inherited from Proto-Ketic *tʰaːna (in the direction of, adposition).[5]

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /¹tan/, [taˑnʲ˧]

Adposition

тань (tānʲ)

  1. in the direction of, towards, -wards

Etymology 3

Not featured in CHYD for Modern Ket.[6]

Also found in the audited forms by Kai Donner in 1955, as /tän/ [tän] (“grosse aufrechtstehende Stützstange am Fisch-wehr”).[7][8]

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˣtan/, [tanʲ] (uncertain)

Noun

тань (tanʲm (plural unknown)

  1. fishing post (uncertain)
Usage notes
  • Only listed by BSKJa, for Pakuliha dialect of Northern Ket varieties.

References

  1. ^ https://starlingdb.org/cgi-bin/response.cgi?single=1&basename=%2fDATA%2fYENISEY%2fYENET&text_number=682&root=config
  2. ^ Vajda, Edward; Werner, Heinrich (2022), Comparative-Historical Yeniseian Dictionary (Languages of the World/Dictionaries; 79, 80), Muenchen: LINCOM GmbH, →ISBN, page 856
  3. ^ Matthias Alexander Castrén, Versuch Einer Jenissei-Ostjakischen Und Kottischen Sprachlehre: Nebst Aus Den Genannten Sprachen, St. Petersburg: Leopold Voss Publisher, 1858, page 218
  4. ^ Werner, Heinrich K. (2003), Röhrborn, Klaus, Schellbach-Kopra, Ingrid, editors, M. A. Castrén und die Jenissejistik: Die Jennisej-Sprachen des 19. Jahrhunderts (Veröffentlichungen des Societas Uralo-Altaica; 62) (in German), Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, →ISBN, page 152
  5. ^ Vajda, Edward; Werner, Heinrich (2022), Comparative-Historical Yeniseian Dictionary (Languages of the World/Dictionaries; 79, 80), Muenchen: LINCOM GmbH, →ISBN, page 856
  6. ^ Vajda, Edward; Werner, Heinrich (2022), Comparative-Historical Yeniseian Dictionary (Languages of the World/Dictionaries; 79, 80), Muenchen: LINCOM GmbH, →ISBN
  7. ^ Donner, Karl “Kai” R. (1955), “Ketica: Materialen aus dem Ketischen oder Jenissei-Ostjakischen”, in Joki, Aulis J., editor, Mémories de la Société Finno-ougrienne[1] (in German), volume 108, number 2, page 89
  8. ^ Werner, Heinrich (2002), Vergleichendes Wörterbuch der Jenissej-Sprachen, volume 2, Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, →ISBN, page 236

Further reading

  • Werner, Heinrich (2002), Vergleichendes Wörterbuch der Jenissej-Sprachen, volume 2, Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, →ISBN, pages 236-237, 252
  • Vajda, Edward J.; Zinn, Marina (2004), Kotorova, Elizaveta G., editor, Морфологический словарь кетского глагола (in Russian), Tomsk: Томского государственного педагогического университет (TGPU), pages 202-203
  • Kotorova, Elizaveta; Nefedov, Andrey (2015), Большой словарь кетского языка, Münich: LINCOM, →ISBN, pages 368, 648