Reconstruction:Proto-Yeniseian/šowq

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

  • *ɕo? (per Cologne group. Pattern: s.2-?)

Etymology

Compared to Proto-Athabaskan *šʷἀq’ (“hook shaped object”),[1][2] Navajo ná-zhah (“curled up, crescent-shaped”).

Perhaps the same etymon as or conflated with Proto-Yeniseian *suwg (“back to a starting point”) and *su (“middle, mid-”), though those terms follow a different onset pattern.

This term did not survive on its own, but it is found readily in compounds and in derived terms, given below.

Noun

*šowq (plural *šowq-Vŋ)

  1. a hooked object (bent 180°; backwards)
    Coordinate terms: *ɬep (“a broad and flat object”), *paxʷ (“a flat and round object”)
Derived terms
  • *šowqatɬ (“snow sled”, literally “curved object-pair”)
  • *šowqɬ (“hook, curved implement”)

Descendants

  • Ketic:
    • ⇒ Ket: (Southern and Northern dialects) сюклам (sʲuklʲam), сёклям (sʲɔklʲam, “crossbar or a seat of a sled, backboard of a sled”, literally “hooked object-board”)[3][4]
  • Kottic:
    • ⇒? Kott: (Castrén) šuʔol (“barrel, drum”)[5]

See also

  • Yeniseian entry guidelines § Historical bibliography

References

  1. ^ Leer, Jeff (1996), Comparative Athabaskan Lexicon‎[1], volume zh/zha-sh/zhe, Alaska Native Language Archive, page 15
  2. ^ Krauss, Michael (2005), Athabaskan Prosody, Amsterdam: John Benjamins Publishing Company, →ISBN, page 130
  3. ^ Kotorova, Elizaveta; Nefedov, Andrey (2015), Большой словарь кетского языка, Münich: LINCOM, →ISBN, page 351
  4. ^ Vajda, Edward; Werner, Heinrich (2022), “suklam”, in Comparative-Historical Yeniseian Dictionary (Languages of the World/Dictionaries; 79, 80), volume 2, Muenchen: LINCOM GmbH, →ISBN, page 827
  5. ^ Werner, Heinrich (1998), Abriß der Kottischen Grammatik (Tunguso-Sibirica; 4)‎[2], Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, →ISBN, page 44

Further reading

  • Bonmann, Svenja; Fries, Simon; Korobzow, Natalie; Günther, Laura; Hill, Eugen (2023), “'polar sledge'”, in “Towards a New Reconstruction of the Proto-Yeniseian Sound System. Part I: Word-Initial Consonants”, in International Journal of Eurasian Linguistics‎[3], number 5, Brill, →DOI, →ISSN, page 61 of 39-82
  • Fortescue, Michael; Vajda, Edward (2022), “53.) ~*šowq”, in Mid-Holocene Language Connections between Asia and North America (Brill's Studies in the Indigenous Languages of the Americas; 17)‎[4], Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 351
  • Vajda, Edward (2024), The Languages and Linguistics of Northern Asia: Language Families (The World of Linguistics [WOL]; 10.1)‎[5], volume 1, Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter Mouton, →DOI, →ISBN, pages 383, 392, 419
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