Reconstruction:Proto-Yeniseian/Huλ
Proto-Yeniseian
Etymology
An etymological monomorpheme, but see § Reconstruction notes.
Noun
*Huλ
- water (inorganic liquid)
Reconstruction notes
- Despite SLDB (*xur₁ “water” ~ *xur “rain”), TGLD (idem.) and LaLoNA (*xuɬ “water” ~ *xur “rain”), there is no need to assume a phonemic distinction between Proto-Yeniseian *Huλ (“water”) and Proto-Yeniseian *Huλ(-es) (“rain ← wet-sky”).[1]
Alternative reconstructions
- *xur₁ (SLDB, TGLD; 1982-2013)
- *(k)uλ ~ *(k)uλə (VWdJS, 2002)
- *xuɬ (LaLoNA, 2024)
Descendants
References
Further reading
- https://starlingdb.org/cgi-bin/response.cgi?single=1&basename=%2fDATA%2fYENISEY%2fYENET&text_number=776&root=config
- https://starlingdb.org/cgi-bin/response.cgi?root=new100&morpho=0&basename=new100%2Fyen%2Fyen&first=1&off=&text_word=water&method_word=equal&sort=number
- Werner, Heinrich (2002), Vergleichendes Wörterbuch der Jenissej-Sprachen, volume 2, Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, →ISBN, page 378
- Werner, Heinrich K. (2005), Die Jenissej-Sprachen des 18. Jahrhunderts (in German), Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz KG, →ISBN, page 276
- Vajda, Edward; Werner, Heinrich (2022), Comparative-Historical Yeniseian Dictionary (Languages of the World/Dictionaries; 79, 80), Muenchen: LINCOM GmbH, →ISBN, page 322
- Vajda, Edward (2024), The Languages and Linguistics of Northern Asia: Language Families (The World of Linguistics [WOL]; 10.1)[1], volume 1, Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter Mouton, , →ISBN, page 391
- For descendants and historical sources:
- Pallas, Peter S. (1786, 1789), Schnoor, Iohannis C., editor, Linguarum Totius Orbis Vocabularia Comparativa (Pars Prior et Pars Secundae) (in Russian), volume 1 + 2, Petropoli [St. Petersburg]
- Matthias Alexander Castrén, Versuch Einer Jenissei-Ostjakischen Und Kottischen Sprachlehre: Nebst Aus Den Genannten Sprachen, St. Petersburg: Leopold Voss Publisher, 1858, page 195-227
- Toporov, Vladimir Nikolajevich (1968), “Материалы к срабнительно-исторической фонетике Енисейских языков. 1. Аринско-Енисейские соответствия”, in Ivanov, Vjacheslav Vselodovich, Toporov, Vladimir Nikolajevich, Uspenskij, Boris Andreevich, editors, Кетский Сборник 1: Лингвистика, Moscow: Nauka, pages 286-292
- Werner, Heinrich K. (2012), Vajda, Edward J., editor, Dictionary of the Yugh language (Languages of the World/Dictionaries; 47), Muenchen: Lincom GmbH, →ISBN
- Kotorova, Elizaveta; Nefedov, Andrey (2015), Большой словарь кетского языка, volume 1 + 2, Münich: LINCOM, →ISBN