Reconstruction:Proto-Yeniseian/cajb

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

  • *tʲip (per Werner 2002)
  • *čip (per Starostin 1994-2005)[1]
  • *tlip, *tlīˑp (for Pre-Proto-Yeniseian), *tʲīˑp (per Vajda-Werner 2022)
  • *tɬib, *tɬīˑb (per Fortescue-Vajda 2022)
  • *cib, *cip (per Cologne group 2023 & 2024. Pattern: t.1-p.1)

Etymology

Compared to Proto-Athabaskan *ɬəŋʸ, *ɬįˑkʼʸeˑ (dog)[2][3], Navajo łį́į́ʼ (dog; pet, etc.) though only tentatively.

Noun

*cajb (plural unclear)

  1. (zoology) dog

Descendants

  • Ketic:
    • Imbak Ket: tɨp (Mes.; Eed-Šeš dialect)
    • Imbak Ket: tiːp (M., W.), tip (Kl.), tɨp (Ad.)
      • Imbak Ket: ik-tɨp (male dog, hound) (Ad.)
      • Ket: тип (tīp) (singular), таʼп (taˀp) (plural)
    • Ostyak Yug: čip (M.)
      • Yug: чип (čīp) (singular), чаʼп (čaˀp) (plural)
        • Pumpokol: čip (erroneously labeled as 'Pumpokol')
  • Pumpokolic:
    • Pumpokol: tzi (M.), ci (W., Kl.; singular)
  • Proto-Yeniseian: *gʷatɬ-cajb (dog, literally small-dog)
    • Kottic:
      • Assan: alčíp (M., W., Kl.), alšip (Kl.; singular)
      • Kott: alšíp (C.), álčip (M., W., Kl.), alčip (H.; singular), alšáp (C.; plural)
        • Kott: alšap-šulpi (black currant, literally dog-berry) (C.)
        • Kott: pengalčip (H.), feŋ alšip (female dog, bitch) (C.)
    • Arinic:
      • Arin: ilčep (H.), ílčap (M., W., Kl.; singular)
        • Arin: araulšeb (male dog, hound) (H.)
        • Arin: pinbilšab'a (female dog, bitch) (H.; misspelt recording of *pin'a-ilšab'a)
  • Proto-Yeniseian: *pajs-cajb (wolverine, literally wild-dog)
    • Kottic:
      • Assan: pestáp (M., W., Kl.)
      • Kott: feštap, pʰêstap (C.)
    • Arinic:
      • Arin: p'hjástap (M., W., Kl.)

See also

  • Proto-Yeniseian entry guidelines § Bibliography

References

  1. ^ https://starlingdb.org/cgi-bin/response.cgi?single=1&basename=%2fDATA%2fYENISEY%2fYENET&text_number=264&root=config
  2. ^ 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 314
  3. ^ Leer, Jeff (1996), Comparative Athabaskan Lexicon[2], volume *ɬa-ɬə, Alaska Native Language Archive, pages 32-33

Further reading

  • Bonmann, Svenja; Fries, Simon; Korobzow, Natalie; Günther, Laura; Hill, Eugen (2023), “'dog'”, 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 53 of 39-82
  • Bonmann, Svenja; Fries, Simon; Korobzow, Natalie; Günther, Laura; Hill, Eugen (2023), “t.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[4], number 5, Brill, →DOI, →ISSN, page 70 of 39-82
  • Hill, Eugen; Fries, Simon; Korobzow, Natalie; Günther, Laura; Svenja, Bonmann (2024), “'dog'g”, 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 228 of 216-293
  • Hill, Eugen; Fries, Simon; Korobzow, Natalie; Günther, Laura; Svenja, Bonmann (2024), “Coda-p.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[6], number 6, Brill, →DOI, →ISSN, page 279 of 216-293
  • Fortescue, Michael; Vajda, Edward (2022), “PY *tɬib”, in Mid-Holocene Language Connections between Asia and North America (Brill's Studies in the Indigenous Languages of the Americas; 17)‎[7], Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 275
  • Vajda, Edward; Werner, Heinrich (2022), “*tʲīˑp”, in Comparative-Historical Yeniseian Dictionary (Languages of the World/Dictionaries; 79, 80), volume 2, Muenchen: LINCOM GmbH, →ISBN, page 950
  • Vajda, Edward (2024), “*cajb”, in The Languages and Linguistics of Northern Asia: Language Families (The World of Linguistics [WOL]; 10.1)‎[8], volume 1, Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter Mouton, →DOI, →ISBN, page 389
  • Werner, Heinrich (2002), “(1) tiˑp (II)”, in Vergleichendes Wörterbuch der Jenissej-Sprachen, volume 2, Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, →ISBN, page 269
  • Werner, Heinrich (2005), “dog”, in Die Jenissej-Sprachen des 18. Jahrhunderts, Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, →ISBN, page 291