Reconstruction:Proto-Yeniseian/qim

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

*qim ~ *qem

woman (female human adult)

Reconstruction notes

This gloss is replaced completely in Kott by Proto-Yeniseian *alte (“spouse, partner”),^[1]^[2] which is also found partially in Arin (Arin -al ~ -el’(a) ~ -alte) and Pumpokol (Pumpokol il-) daughter languages given below.

Alternative reconstructions

*qVm (SLDB, 1982-2013)
*qem (TGLD, 2013)
*? (VWdJS, 2002)
*? (LaLoNA, 2024)

Descendants

Arinic:
- ⇒ Arin: biqamal (bi꞊qam-al, “my wife”); biqamálte, bыqam álte (bi꞊qam-alte, “my wife”) (← Arin *kem-el’a (“woman”))^[3]
Ketic:
- Ket: ӄим (qīm)
- Yug: хем (χēm), хим (χīm)
Pumpokolic:
- ⇒ Pumpokol: илземь (ilzemʲ, “wife”) (← Pumpokol *il-χem)

References

^ https://starlingdb.org/cgi-bin/response.cgi?single=1&basename=%2fDATA%2fYENISEY%2fYENET&text_number=14&root=config
^ Vajda, Edward; Werner, Heinrich (2022), Comparative-Historical Yeniseian Dictionary (Languages of the World/Dictionaries; 79, 80), Muenchen: LINCOM GmbH, →ISBN, page 38
^ Helimskij, Eugene A. (1986), “Архивные материалы XVIII. века по енисейским языкам”, in Палеоазиатский языки‎^[1] (in Russian), Leningrad: Nauka, pages 179-212

https://starlingdb.org/cgi-bin/response.cgi?single=1&basename=%2fDATA%2fYENISEY%2fYENET&text_number=581&root=config
https://starlingdb.org/cgi-bin/response.cgi?root=new100&morpho=0&basename=new100%2Fyen%2Fyen&first=1&off=&text_word=woman&method_word=equal&sort=number
Werner, Heinrich (2002), Vergleichendes Wörterbuch der Jenissej-Sprachen, volume 2, Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, →ISBN, page 90
Werner, Heinrich K. (2005), Die Jenissej-Sprachen des 18. Jahrhunderts (in German), Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz KG, →ISBN, pages 233, 239
Vajda, Edward; Werner, Heinrich (2022), Comparative-Historical Yeniseian Dictionary (Languages of the World/Dictionaries; 79, 80), Muenchen: LINCOM GmbH, →ISBN, page 666
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

[1] ttps://starlingdb.org/cgi-bin/response.cgi?single=1&basename=%2fDATA%2fYENISEY%2fYENET&text_number=14&root=config

[2] Vajda, Edward; Werner, Heinrich (2022), Comparative-Historical Yeniseian Dictionary (Languages of the World/Dictionaries; 79, 80), Muenchen: LINCOM GmbH, →ISBN, page 38

[3] Helimskij, Eugene A. (1986), “Архивные материалы XVIII. века по енисейским языкам”, in Палеоазиатский языки‎^[1] (in Russian), Leningrad: Nauka, pages 179-212

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