Reconstruction:Proto-Yeniseian/ɢej

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

  • *qɛˀ, *qɛg (per Werner 2002)
  • *x[e]ˀ (per Starostin 1994-2005)[1]
  • *qajx (per Fortescue-Vajda 2022)

Etymology

Adjective

*ɢej (adjectival form *ɢej-Vŋʷ)

  1. big, large
    Synonym: *wesVŋʷ (for Kottic)
    Antonyms: *gʷatɬ (pan-Yeniseian), *ijm-ɟe (for Ketic, Kottic and Arinic), *pon (for Ketic and Pumpokolic)
Derived terms
  • *ɢej-ab (“grandfather”)
  • *ɢej-am (“grandmother”)
  • *ɢejm (“woman, wife”)
  • *ɢejn (“upper arm, shoulder”) (uncertain)
  • *ɢejVŋʷkʷik (“high riverbank”, literally “big-slope”)
  • *ɢejVŋʷɬaw (“thumb; five, 5”, literally “big-extension”)

Descendants

  • Ketic:
    • Imbak Ket: xäegam (M., W., Kl., VW.), kaigám (Ad.)
      • Ket: ӄя (qʲà) (Southern dialects), ӄяʼ (qʲaˀ) (Central and Northern dialects, singular), ӄяӈ (qʲàŋ), ӄеӈ (qʲɛ̀ŋ) (plural)[2][3]
    • Ostyak Yug: xääse (M.)
      • Yug: хеʼ (χɛˀ) (singular), хеʼӈ (χɛˀŋ) (plural)
  • Pumpokolic:
    • ⇒ Pumpokol: či-baj (“storm”) (W., Kl.)
    • ⇒ Pumpokol: Ge-béŋ (“Pumpokol”, literally “[people of the] high river-bank; large-land”) (W.)
    • ⇒ Pumpokol: kejn (W.), ké-in (“knife”, literally “big-needle”) (M.)
  • >? Proto-Yeniseian: *ɢej-qan (“Khan, Khagan”, literally “big ruler”)[4][5]
    • →? Proto-Turkic: *kagan (“Khagan”) (see there for further descendants)

References

  1. ^ https://starlingdb.org/cgi-bin/response.cgi?single=1&basename=%2fDATA%2fYENISEY%2fYENET&text_number=787&root=config
  2. ^ Werner, Heinrich (2005), “ӄя [мн. ӄяӈ, ӄеӈ]”, in Die Jenissej-Sprachen des 18. Jahrhunderts, Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, →ISBN, page 66
  3. ^ Kotorova, Elizaveta; Nefedov, Andrey (2015), “qa (I, II)”, in Большой словарь кетского языка, volume 1, Münich: LINCOM, →ISBN, pages 279-280
  4. ^ Vovin, Alexander (2007), “Once again on the title qaγan”, in Studia Etymologica Cracoviensia, number 12, page 184 of 177-184
  5. ^ Vajda, Edward; Werner, Heinrich (2022), “*qan (5)”, in Comparative-Historical Yeniseian Dictionary (Languages of the World/Dictionaries; 79, 80), Muenchen: LINCOM GmbH, →ISBN, page 633

Further reading

  • Fortescue, Michael; Vajda, Edward (2022), Mid-Holocene Language Connections between Asia and North America (Brill's Studies in the Indigenous Languages of the Americas; 17)‎[1], Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 271
  • Vajda, Edward; Werner, Heinrich (2022), “*qaˀ/*qaˀʌ (1, 2)”, in Comparative-Historical Yeniseian Dictionary (Languages of the World/Dictionaries; 79, 80), volume 2, Muenchen: LINCOM GmbH, →ISBN, pages 615-616
  • Vajda, Edward (2024), “*ɢej-Vŋʷ”, in 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 423
  • Werner, Heinrich (2002), “(4)qä (II)”, in Vergleichendes Wörterbuch der Jenissej-Sprachen, volume 2, Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, →ISBN, page 58
  • Werner, Heinrich (2005), “groß”, in Die Jenissej-Sprachen des 18. Jahrhunderts, Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, →ISBN, pages 242-243
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