Reconstruction:Proto-Yeniseian/tejɬ

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

  • *tʌλ, *atʌλ (in compounds, per Vajda-Werner 2022)

Etymology

Composed of *-tej (“to lie in a stationary position”) (for one or more animate subjects) +‎ *-ɬ (instrument suffix). Compared to Proto-Athabaskan *te̓ˑɬ (“mat, bedding”)[1] , formed identically from Proto-Athabaskan *teˑ (“to lie”) (for a single animate subject)[2] with the instrument suffix *-ɬ and Eyak teˀɬ (“mat, bedding”).

Noun

*tejɬ (plural *tejɬ-Vŋ)

  1. (architecture) mat, tent flooring; bedding

Descendants

  • ⇒ Proto-Ketic: *at-tejɬ (“mat”, literally “down-flooring”)
    • ⇒ Ket: баӄӄатль (baqqatlʲ, “floor covering, beam; carpeting”, literally “?-mat”)[3]
    • ⇒ Ket: ӄъятль (qʌjátlʲ, “mat made of birch bark”, literally “birch bark-mat”)[4]
    • ⇒ Ket: удатль (uɾātlʲ, “bedding for infants”, literally “cradle-mat”)[5]
    • >? Yug: атер (atɛr, “mat”)
  • ⇒ Proto-Ketic: *ejg-tejɬ (“anvil”, literally “iron-flooring”)
    • Ket: аӄатль (aqatlʲ), аӷатль (aʁatlʲ)[6]
    • Yug: ахатер (aχatɛr)
  • Arinic:
    • ⇒? Arin: tilčuju (“flower, bloom”, literally “flooring-grass”) (H.)
  • ⇒ Proto-Yeniseian: *xʷag-tejɬ (“saddle”, literally “wood-flooring”)[7]
    • Kottic:
      • Kott: âgatal (C.), atakal (H.)
    • Arinic:
      • Arin: oxor (H.)

See also

  • Proto-Yeniseian entry guidelines § Bibliography

References

  1. ^ Leer, Jeff (1996), Comparative Athabaskan Lexicon‎[1], volume tE-tu, Alaska Native Language Archive, page 77
  2. ^ Leer, Jeff (1996), Comparative Athabaskan Lexicon‎[2], volume tE-tu, Alaska Native Language Archive, pages 68-69
  3. ^ Kotorova, Elizaveta; Nefedov, Andrey (2015), Большой словарь кетского языка, Münich: LINCOM, →ISBN, page 112
  4. ^ Kotorova, Elizaveta; Nefedov, Andrey (2015), Большой словарь кетского языка, Münich: LINCOM, →ISBN, page 326
  5. ^ Kotorova, Elizaveta; Nefedov, Andrey (2015), Большой словарь кетского языка, Münich: LINCOM, →ISBN, pages 400-401
  6. ^ Kotorova, Elizaveta; Nefedov, Andrey (2015), Большой словарь кетского языка, Münich: LINCOM, →ISBN, pages 94-95
  7. ^ Vajda, Edward; Werner, Heinrich (2022), “*aqatʌλ”, in Comparative-Historical Yeniseian Dictionary (Languages of the World/Dictionaries; 79, 80), volume 1, Muenchen: LINCOM GmbH, →ISBN, page 67

Further reading

  • Fortescue, Michael; Vajda, Edward (2022), “15.) ~*tej-ɬ”, 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 333
  • Werner, Heinrich (2002), “atl'”, in Vergleichendes Wörterbuch der Jenissej-Sprachen, volume 1, Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, →ISBN, page 77
  • Werner, Heinrich (2005), “saddle”, in Die Jenissej-Sprachen des 18. Jahrhunderts, Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, →ISBN, page 318
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