Reconstruction:Proto-Yeniseian/cijga

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

  • *tʲi-kə (per Werner 2002)
  • *čiki (per Starostin 1994-2005)
  • *tʲigə (per Khabtagaeva 2019)[1]
  • *tʲigʌ (per Vajda-Werner 2022)
  • *cik (per Cologne group 2023. Pattern: t.1-k.1)

Etymology

Composed of *cij (“swan?”) +‎ *-ga (nominalizer suffix).

Noun

*cijga (plural *cij-ga-n)

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

Descendants

  • Ketic:
    • Imbak Ket: tíge (M., W.)
      • Ket: тиг (tīɣ) (Southern dialects), тигъ (tīɣʌ) (Central and Northern dialects)
    • Yug: чик (čīk)
  • Kottic:
    • Kott: šîgi (singular), šîgán (C.)

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 217

Further reading

  • Bonmann, Svenja; Fries, Simon; Korobzow, Natalie; Günther, Laura; Hill, Eugen (2023), “'swan'”, 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 53 of 39-82
  • 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)‎[3], Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 265
  • Vajda, Edward; Werner, Heinrich (2022), “*tʲigʌ”, in Comparative-Historical Yeniseian Dictionary (Languages of the World/Dictionaries; 79, 80), volume 2, Muenchen: LINCOM GmbH, →ISBN, page 949
  • Vajda, Edward (2024), 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 380
  • Werner, Heinrich (2002), “(1) tiˑγ/(1) tiˑx”, in Vergleichendes Wörterbuch der Jenissej-Sprachen, Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, →ISBN, page 270
  • Werner, Heinrich (2005), “swan”, in Die Jenissej-Sprachen des 18. Jahrhunderts, Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, →ISBN, page 327
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