Reconstruction:Proto-Yeniseian/dejç

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

  • *de-s (per Werner 2002)
  • *tej, *dej, *dejs (per Fortescue-Vajda 2022)
  • *deʧ, *dec (per Cologne group 2023 & 2024. Pattern: d.1-s.1)

Etymology

Composed of *dej (eye) +‎ *-ç (singulative suffix).

Noun

*dej-ç (plural *dej-Vŋ)

  1. (anatomy) eye

Descendants

  • Ketic:
    • Imbak Ket: dées (M., W., Kl., VW.), deːs (Kl.), des' (Ad.)
      • Ket: десь (dēˑsʲ)
        • Ket: -дис (dis, singulative suffix)
    • Ostyak Yug: deːs (M.)
  • Kottic:
    • Assan: teš (M., W., Kl., VW.), tiš (Kl.)
    • Kott: têš (M., W.), tes (H.), tiš (C.; singular), téčagan (M., W., Kl.), tieŋ (VW.; plural)
      • Kott: tes-pun (blind, literally eye-without) (H.)
  • Arinic:
    • Arin: tieŋ (M., W., Kl., VW.), tiːeŋ (Str.)
    • Arin: tenkt (eye, eyes?) (H.)
    • Arin: a-tem-manča (blind, literally eyes-without) (H.)
  • Pumpokolic:
    • Pumpokol: dat (M., W., VW., Kl.)
    • ? Pumpokol: dɨxu (ball) (VW.)[1]

See also

  • Proto-Yeniseian entry guidelines § Bibliography

References

  1. ^ Vajda, Edward; Werner, Heinrich (2022), “dɯxu”, in Comparative-Historical Yeniseian Dictionary (Languages of the World/Dictionaries; 79, 80), volume 1, Muenchen: LINCOM GmbH, →ISBN, page 233

Further reading

  • Bonmann, Svenja; Fries, Simon; Korobzow, Natalie; Günther, Laura; Hill, Eugen (2023), “Towards a New Reconstruction of the Proto-Yeniseian Sound System. Part I: Word-Initial Consonants”, in International Journal of Eurasian Linguistics[1], number 5, Brill, →DOI, →ISSN, page 51 of 39-82
  • Hill, Eugen; Fries, Simon; Korobzow, Natalie; Günther, Laura; Svenja, Bonmann (2024), “Towards a New Reconstruction of the Proto-Yeniseian Sound System. Part II: Word-Final Consonants”, in International Journal of Eurasian Linguistics[2], number 6, Brill, →DOI, →ISSN, page 251 of 216-293
  • Fortescue, Michael; Vajda, Edward (2022), “*13.) ~*tej”, 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 332
  • Vajda, Edward; Werner, Heinrich (2022), “*des”, in Comparative-Historical Yeniseian Dictionary (Languages of the World/Dictionaries; 79, 80), Muenchen: LINCOM GmbH, →ISBN, page 202
  • 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 413
  • Werner, Heinrich (2002), “(1) deˑs' (n)”, in Vergleichendes Wörterbuch der Jenissej-Sprachen, Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, →ISBN, page 187