Reconstruction:Proto-Yeniseian/pon

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

  • *pʰənʲa (per Werner 2002)
  • *pǝnʲ (per Starostin 1994-2005)
  • *pən (per Khabtagaeva 2019)[1]
  • *pʰʌna, *pʰʌnʲa (per Vajda-Werner 2022)
  • *pewn (per Fortescue-Vajda 2022)

Etymology

Adjective

*pon (adjectival form *pon-Vŋʷ)

  1. little, small
    Synonyms: *gʷatɬ (pan-Yeniseian), *ijm-ɟe (for Ketic, Kottic and Arinic)
    Antonyms: *ɢej (pan-Yeniseian), *wesVŋʷ (for Kottic)
Derived terms
  • *pon-ɢejn (“hand”, literally “little-arm”)
  • *ponVŋʷ (“sand”, literally “little thing”)

Descendants

  • Ketic:
    • Imbak Ket: xönnenam, xennenam (M., W., VW.)
      • Ket: хъня (hʌ́nʲa)[2][3]
      • ⇒ Ket: ыньтип (ɨ́nʲ-tip, “puppy”, literally “little-dog”)[4][5]
    • Ostyak Yug: pujnindž (M., Kl.)
      • Yug: фъня (fʌnʲa), фъння (fʌnʲnʲa), фәня (fɤnʲa), фәння (fɤnʲnʲa)
      • → Pumpokol: fɨnem (erroneously labeled as 'Pumpokol')

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 235
  2. ^ Werner, Heinrich (2002), “хъня”, in Словарь кетско-русский и русско-кетский: Учебное пособие для учащихся начальной школы‎[2], 2 edition, Saint-Petersburg: Drofa, →ISBN, page 109
  3. ^ Kotorova, Elizaveta; Nefedov, Andrey (2015), “həna (I, II)”, in Большой словарь кетского языка, volume 1, Münich: LINCOM, →ISBN, pages 198-199
  4. ^ 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 276
  5. ^ 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 391

Further reading

  • Vajda, Edward; Werner, Heinrich (2022), “*pʰʌna”, in Comparative-Historical Yeniseian Dictionary (Languages of the World/Dictionaries; 79, 80), volume 1, Muenchen: LINCOM GmbH, →ISBN, page 593
  • Werner, Heinrich (2002), “hʌ́n'a”, in Vergleichendes Wörterbuch der Jenissej-Sprachen, volume 1, Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, →ISBN, page 337
  • Werner, Heinrich (2005), “small”, in Die Jenissej-Sprachen des 18. Jahrhunderts, Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, →ISBN, page 323
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