Reconstruction:Proto-Yeniseian/kʰetʰ

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

Etymology

An etymological monomorpheme.

Noun

*kʰetʰ

  1. person, man (human being)

Reconstruction notes

  • The earlier recordings of Kott илить (ilitʲ, “man, person”)[1] and Kott ilitt (ilit)[2] demonstrate an archaic prefix *il- appended to the proper Kott hit (hit, “man, person”).

Alternative reconstructions

  • *keʔt (SLDB, TGLD; 1982-2013)
  • *? (VWdJS, 2002)
  • *qid (LaLoNA, 2024)

Descendants

  • Arinic:
    • Arin: qit (qit), k’it (k’it)
  • Ketic:
  • Kottic:
    • Kott: hit (hit)
  • Pumpokolic:

References

  1. ^ Pallas, Peter S. (1786, 1789), Schnoor, Iohannis C., editor, Linguarum Totius Orbis Vocabularia Comparativa (Pars Prior et Pars Secundae) (in Russian), volume 1, Petropoli [St. Petersburg], page 44
  2. ^ Klaproth, Heinrich J. von (1823), Humboldt, Friedrich W. H. A. von, editor, Asia Polyglotta (in German), Paris, page 176

Further reading

  • https://starlingdb.org/cgi-bin/response.cgi?single=1&basename=%2fDATA%2fYENISEY%2fYENET&text_number=378&root=config
  • https://starlingdb.org/cgi-bin/response.cgi?root=new100&morpho=0&basename=new100%2Fyen%2Fyen&first=1&off=&text_word=person&method_word=equal&sort=number
  • Werner, Heinrich (2002), Vergleichendes Wörterbuch der Jenissej-Sprachen, volume 1, Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, →ISBN, pages 420-421
  • Werner, Heinrich K. (2005), Die Jenissej-Sprachen des 18. Jahrhunderts (in German), Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz KG, →ISBN, page 254
  • Vajda, Edward; Werner, Heinrich (2022), Comparative-Historical Yeniseian Dictionary (Languages of the World/Dictionaries; 79, 80), Muenchen: LINCOM GmbH, →ISBN, page 464
  • 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, →DOI, →ISBN, page 422
  • 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]
    • Klaproth, Heinrich J. von (1823), Humboldt, Friedrich W. H. A. von, editor, Asia Polyglotta (in German), Paris, pages 166-182
    • 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
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