Reconstruction:Proto-Yeniseian/pun

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

  • *pʰuˀn, *puˀn, *puˀ (per Werner 2002)
  • *pʰuˀn (per Vajda-Werner 2022)
  • *pun (per Cologne group 2023 & 2024. Pattern: h.1-n.1)

Etymology

According to Werner (2002), composed of *pu (“offspring”) +‎ *-m (feminine noun class marker). This base stem *pu- can also be seen in Proto-Yeniseian *pub (“son”). According to Vajda-Werner (2022), the *pu- stem instead means "below, junior" or "small".

Noun

*pun (plural *pun-Vŋ)

  1. (sociology) daughter, female offspring
    Coordinate term: *pub (“son, male offspring”)

Descendants

  • Ketic:
    • Imbak Ket: bhu:n, b'un (b-huːn, bʲun, “my daughter”) (Ket б- (b-, bʲ-, first person possessive prefix))
      • Ket: хуʼн (huˀn), хуʼнь (huˀnʲ, “daughter; baby doll, puppet doll”)
    • Ostyak Yug: punna
      • Yug: фуʼн (fuˀn)
  • Kottic:
    • Assan: pun
    • Kott: fun, pfun, pfeum, pun'a (punʲa)

References

Further reading

  • Bonmann, Svenja; Fries, Simon; Korobzow, Natalie; Günther, Laura; Hill, Eugen (2023), “h.1 (Table 28 [cont.])”, in “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 71 of 39-82
  • 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[2], number 6, Brill, →DOI, →ISSN, page 279 of 216-293
  • Fortescue, Michael; Vajda, Edward (2022), “PY *u”, 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 268
  • Vajda, Edward; Werner, Heinrich (2022), “*pʰuˀn (1, 2)”, in Comparative-Historical Yeniseian Dictionary (Languages of the World/Dictionaries; 79, 80), Muenchen: LINCOM GmbH, →ISBN, page 583
  • 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, pages 377, 402
  • Vajda, Edward (2024), “*pun (Tab. 15)”, in The Languages and Linguistics of Northern Asia: Language Families (The World of Linguistics [WOL]; 10.1)‎[5], volume 1, Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter Mouton, →DOI, →ISBN, page 412
  • Werner, Heinrich (2002), “²huˀn (I)”, in Vergleichendes Wörterbuch der Jenissej-Sprachen, Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, →ISBN, page 331
  • Werner, Heinrich (2005), “daughter”, in Die Jenissej-Sprachen des 18. Jahrhunderts, Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, →ISBN, page 290
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