Reconstruction:Proto-Yeniseian/ban

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

  • *bəˀn (per Starostin 1994-2005 and Khabtagaeva 2019[1])
  • *bʌˀn (per Vajda-Werner 2022)
  • *pewn (per Fortescue-Vajda 2022)
  • *ban-ja (per Vajda 2024)
  • *bʌn (per Cologne group 2023 & 2024. Pattern: b.1-n.1)

Etymology

Noun

*ban (plural *ban-ja-n)

  1. (zoology, ornithology) duck
    Coordinate terms: *bix (loon), *potʳ (merganser), *tʳaɢa (a kind of diving duck), *cam (goose), *cijga (swan), *ɟex (wood grouse)

Descendants

  • Ketic:
    • Imbak Ket: bön (M., W., VW.), bɨn, ben (Kl.), bɨn' (Ad.)
      • Ket: бъʼн (bʌˀn)
        • Ket: бъннадэӈ (bʌnnadɛŋ, Yug people, literally duck-people) (used by Ket shamans)
    • Ostyak Yug: bɨn (M.)
  • Kottic:
    • Assan: pin (M., W., Kl., VW.), pɨn (Kl.)
    • Kott: pin (M., W., Kl., VW.), pîn (C.)
      • Kott: imgarapin (chicken, literally small-duck) (H.)
  • Arinic:
    • Arin: pon'a (H., M., W., Kl., VW.), punä (Str.)
  • Pumpokolic:
    • Pumpokol: bann (M.), ban (W., VW., Kl.)

See also

  • Proto-Yeniseian entry guidelines § Bibliography

References

  1. ^ Khabtagaeva, Bayarma (2019), Language Contact in Siberia: Turkic, Mongolic, and Tungusic Loanwords in Yeniseian (The languages of Asia series; 19)‎[1], Brill, →ISBN, page 230

Further reading

  • Bonmann, Svenja; Fries, Simon; Korobzow, Natalie; Günther, Laura; Hill, Eugen (2023), “'duck'”, in “Towards a New Reconstruction of the Proto-Yeniseian Sound System. Part I: Word-Initial Consonants”, in International Journal of Eurasian Linguistics[2], number 5, Brill, →DOI, →ISSN, page 46 of 39-82
  • Bonmann, Svenja; Fries, Simon; Korobzow, Natalie; Günther, Laura; Hill, Eugen (2023), “b.1 (Table 28)”, in “Towards a New Reconstruction of the Proto-Yeniseian Sound System. Part I: Word-Initial Consonants”, in International Journal of Eurasian Linguistics[3], number 5, Brill, →DOI, →ISSN, page 70 of 39-82
  • Hill, Eugen; Fries, Simon; Korobzow, Natalie; Günther, Laura; Svenja, Bonmann (2024), “'duck'a”, in “Towards a New Reconstruction of the Proto-Yeniseian Sound System. Part II: Word-Final Consonants”, in International Journal of Eurasian Linguistics[4], number 6, Brill, →DOI, →ISSN, page 269 of 216-293
  • Hill, Eugen; Fries, Simon; Korobzow, Natalie; Günther, Laura; Svenja, Bonmann (2024), “Coda-n.1 (Table 21)”, in “Towards a New Reconstruction of the Proto-Yeniseian Sound System. Part II: Word-Final Consonants”, in International Journal of Eurasian Linguistics[5], number 6, Brill, →DOI, →ISSN, page 279 of 216-293
  • Fortescue, Michael; Vajda, Edward (2022), “PY *ew”, in Mid-Holocene Language Connections between Asia and North America (Brill's Studies in the Indigenous Languages of the Americas; 17)‎[6], Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 270
  • Vajda, Edward; Werner, Heinrich (2022), “*bʌˀn”, in Comparative-Historical Yeniseian Dictionary (Languages of the World/Dictionaries; 79, 80), volume 1, Muenchen: LINCOM GmbH, →ISBN, pages 173-174
  • Vajda, Edward (2024), “*ban-ja, *ban-ja-n”, in The Languages and Linguistics of Northern Asia: Language Families (The World of Linguistics [WOL]; 10.1)‎[7], volume 1, Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter Mouton, →DOI, →ISBN, page 416
  • Werner, Heinrich (2002), “(2) bʌˀn”, in Vergleichendes Wörterbuch der Jenissej-Sprachen, volume 1, Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, →ISBN, page 156
  • Werner, Heinrich (2005), “duck”, in Die Jenissej-Sprachen des 18. Jahrhunderts, Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, →ISBN, page 292