Reconstruction:Proto-Yeniseian/χegja

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

  • *igə (per Werner 2002)
  • *ʔik, *ʔiɢ (per Starostin 1994-2005)[1]
  • *igʌ (per Vajda-Werner 2022)
  • *χejg (per Fortescue-Vajda 2022)

Etymology

Composed of *-χeg (“to call”) +‎ *-ja (nominalizer suffix).

Compared to Proto-Athabaskan *uˑ-žeˑ (“name”)[2][3], Navajo ázhiʼ (“name”), Eyak wə-šeh (“name”) and Tlingit saa (“name”).[4] Also note that both Yeniseian and Na-Dené languages derive this gloss identically, with a root verb with the meaning "to call" appended by a general nominalizing suffix.

Noun

*χegja (plural *χeg-ja-n)

  1. (sociology) name, given name

Descendants

  • Ketic:
    • Imbak Ket: ab ií, ab ii (“my name”)
      • Ket: и (īˑ) (singular), э’ӈ (ɛˀŋ) (plural)
    • Yug: и (īˑ) (singular), э’ӈ (ɛˀŋ) (plural)
  • Kottic:
    • Kott: ix, îx (singular), eäkŋ, îkŋ, ekŋ (plural)
  • Pumpokolic:
    • >? Pumpokol: i

References

  1. ^ https://starlingdb.org/cgi-bin/response.cgi?single=1&basename=%2fDATA%2fYENISEY%2fYENET&text_number=95&root=config
  2. ^ Leer, Jeff (1996), Comparative Athabaskan Lexicon‎[1], volume ša, šə, še, Alaska Native Language Archive, page 25
  3. ^ Leer, Jeff (1996), Comparative Athabaskan Lexicon‎[2], volume (h)ə, (h)e, (h)i, (h)u, Alaska Native Language Archive, page 12
  4. ^ Twitchell, X̱ʼunei Lance (2020), Tlingit Online Dictionary, Juneau, Alaska: Independently published, supported by Goldbelt Heritage Foundation and the University of Alaska Southeast, →ISBN, page 192

Further reading

  • Fortescue, Michael; Vajda, Edward (2022), “112.) ~*χej()”, in Mid-Holocene Language Connections between Asia and North America (Brill's Studies in the Indigenous Languages of the Americas; 17)‎[3], Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 380
  • Vajda, Edward; Werner, Heinrich (2022), “*igʌ (1)”, in Comparative-Historical Yeniseian Dictionary (Languages of the World/Dictionaries; 79, 80), volume 1, Muenchen: LINCOM GmbH, →ISBN, page 333
  • Vajda, Edward (2024), “*χeg-ja”, in The Languages and Linguistics of Northern Asia: Language Families (The World of Linguistics [WOL]; 10.1)‎[4], volume 1, Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter Mouton, →DOI, →ISBN, page 422
  • Werner, Heinrich (2002), “(1) iˑ (III)”, in Vergleichendes Wörterbuch der Jenissej-Sprachen, volume 1, Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, →ISBN, page 392
  • Werner, Heinrich (2005), “name”, in Die Jenissej-Sprachen des 18. Jahrhunderts, Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, →ISBN, page 311
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