Reconstruction:Proto-Yeniseian/paxʷVŋʷ

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

  • *pʰaksəm (per Werner 2002)
  • *pak-si-m (per Starostin 1994-2005)[1]
  • *pʰadʲəŋ (per Khabtagaeva 2019)[2]
  • *pʰaksʌm (per Vajda-Werner 2022)
  • *wajxVŋʷ (per Fortescue-Vajda 2022)

Etymology

Composed of *paxʷ (“a flat and round object”) +‎ *-Vŋʷ (adjectivizing suffix).

Adjective

*paxʷVŋʷ (adjectival form *paxʷVŋʷ)

  1. thin, flat, wide (said of layered or broad materials, like boards or paper)

Descendants

  • Ketic:
    • Ket: (Southern dialects) хаксем (háksʲɛm), хаксим (háksʲim, “thin (said of flat objects like paper, boards)”)[3]
    • Ket: (Central dialects) хаксемсь (háksʲɛmsʲ)
    • Yug: факсим (fáksim, “thin, wide”)
  • Kottic:
    • Kott: (Castrén) fačam, pʰačam (“flat, wide”)

See also

  • Yeniseian entry guidelines § Historical bibliography

References

  1. ^ https://starlingdb.org/cgi-bin/response.cgi?single=1&basename=%2fDATA%2fYENISEY%2fYENET&text_number=442&root=config
  2. ^ Khabtagaeva, Bayarma (2019), Language Contact in Siberia: Turkic, Mongolic, and Tungusic Loanwords in Yeniseian (The languages of Asia series; 19)‎[1], Brill, →ISBN, pages 116, 365
  3. ^ Kotorova, Elizaveta; Nefedov, Andrey (2015), Большой словарь кетского языка, Münich: LINCOM, →ISBN, page 178

Further reading

  • Fortescue, Michael; Vajda, Edward (2022), “123.) ~*wajx”, in Mid-Holocene Language Connections between Asia and North America (Brill's Studies in the Indigenous Languages of the Americas; 17)‎[2], Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 386
  • Vajda, Edward; Werner, Heinrich (2022), “*pʰaksʌm”, in Comparative-Historical Yeniseian Dictionary (Languages of the World/Dictionaries; 79, 80), volume 1, Muenchen: LINCOM GmbH, →ISBN, page 541
  • Vajda, Edward (2024), The Languages and Linguistics of Northern Asia: Language Families (The World of Linguistics [WOL]; 10.1)‎[3], volume 1, Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter Mouton, →DOI, →ISBN, page 388
  • Werner, Heinrich (2002), “háks'em/háks'im”, in Vergleichendes Wörterbuch der Jenissej-Sprachen, volume 1, Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, →ISBN, page 293
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