Reconstruction:Proto-Yeniseian/tuwVŋʷ

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

  • *tʰum (per Werner 2002)
  • *tum- (Starostin 1994-2005)[1]
  • *tʰūˑm, *tʰumaŋ, *tʰumej (per Vajda-Werner 2022)
  • *tum (per Cologne group 2023 & 2024. Pattern: t.2-m.1)

Etymology

Composed of *tuw (“clay”) +‎ *-Vŋʷ (adjectival suffix), literally “clay-colored”.

Adjective

*tuwVŋʷ (adjectival form)

  1. black, black-colored

Descendants

  • Ketic:
    • Imbak Ket: túemam (M., W., Kl., VW.), tuumfia (Kl.)
    • Ostyak Yug: tuums'a (M.)
      • Yug: тумси (tumsi)
  • Kottic:
    • Assan: tuma (M., W., Kl., VW.), puma (Kl.)
    • Kott: t'u:ma (M., W., Kl., VW.), tuma (H.), tʰum (C.)
    • ⇒ Kott: túma (“blue”) (M., W.)
  • Arinic:
    • Arin: t'u:ma (M., W., Kl., VW.), t'um'a (H.)
  • Pumpokolic:
    • Pumpokol: túma (M., W., VW., Kl.)

See also

Colors in Proto-Yeniseian
     *tajcVŋʷ      *tuwVŋʷ      *çurVŋʷ              *çajVŋʷ
  • Proto-Yeniseian entry guidelines § Bibliography

References

  1. ^ https://starlingdb.org/cgi-bin/response.cgi?single=1&basename=%2fDATA%2fYENISEY%2fYENET&text_number=729&root=config
  2. ^ Kotorova, Elizaveta; Nefedov, Andrey (2015), Большой словарь кетского языка, Münich: LINCOM, →ISBN, page 393

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 54 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 268 of 216-293
  • Vajda, Edward; Werner, Heinrich (2022), “*tʰūˑm < *tʰumaŋ, *tʰumej”, in Comparative-Historical Yeniseian Dictionary (Languages of the World/Dictionaries; 79, 80), Muenchen: LINCOM GmbH, →ISBN, pages 916-917
  • Vajda, Edward (2024), “*tuw-Vŋʷ (Tab. 18)”, in The Languages and Linguistics of Northern Asia: Language Families (The World of Linguistics [WOL]; 10.1)‎[3], volume 1, Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter Mouton, →DOI, →ISBN, page 416
  • Werner, Heinrich (2002), “¹tuˑms'”, in Vergleichendes Wörterbuch der Jenissej-Sprachen, Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, →ISBN, pages 295-296
  • Werner, Heinrich (2005), “black”, in Die Jenissej-Sprachen des 18. Jahrhunderts, Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, →ISBN, page 285
  • Werner, Heinrich (2005), “blue”, in Die Jenissej-Sprachen des 18. Jahrhunderts, Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, →ISBN, page 285
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