Reconstruction:Proto-Yeniseian/pʰigʌ

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

Borrowed from Proto-Uralic *pojka (boy, male child).

Noun

*pʰigʌ

  1. man (male human adult)
    Coordinate term: *qim ~ *qem (woman)

Reconstruction notes

  • None.

Alternative reconstructions

  • *pixe (SLDB, TGLD; 1982-2013)
  • *pʰigə (VWdJS, 2002)
  • *pojka (LaLoNA, 2024)

Descendants

  • Arinic:
    • ? Arin: *panalikip (man, male person?)[1][2] (Arin *pa꞊n꞊ali-kit?)
  • Ketic:
    • Ket: хиг (hīk)
    • Yug: фик (fīk)
  • Kottic:
    • Kott: (fiː)

References

  1. ^ Helimskij, Eugene A. (1986), “Архивные материалы XVIII. века по енисейским языкам”, in Палеоазиатский языки[1] (in Russian), Leningrad: Nauka, pages 179-212
  2. ^ Vajda, Edward; Werner, Heinrich (2022), Comparative-Historical Yeniseian Dictionary (Languages of the World/Dictionaries; 79, 80), Muenchen: LINCOM GmbH, →ISBN, page 530

Further reading

  • https://starlingdb.org/cgi-bin/response.cgi?single=1&basename=%2fDATA%2fYENISEY%2fYENET&text_number=475&root=config
  • https://starlingdb.org/cgi-bin/response.cgi?root=new100&morpho=0&basename=new100%2Fyen%2Fyen&first=1&off=&text_word=man&method_word=equal&sort=number
  • Werner, Heinrich (2002), Vergleichendes Wörterbuch der Jenissej-Sprachen, volume 1, Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, →ISBN, page 320
  • Werner, Heinrich K. (2005), Die Jenissej-Sprachen des 18. Jahrhunderts (in German), Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz KG, →ISBN, page 253
  • Vajda, Edward; Werner, Heinrich (2022), Comparative-Historical Yeniseian Dictionary (Languages of the World/Dictionaries; 79, 80), Muenchen: LINCOM GmbH, →ISBN, page 561
  • Vajda, Edward (2024), The Languages and Linguistics of Northern Asia: Language Families (The World of Linguistics [WOL]; 10.1)‎[2], volume 1, Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter Mouton, →DOI, →ISBN, page 406?
  • 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