аʼт

Ket

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Yeniseian *adʳ (“bone, body part”). Cognate with Yug аʼд (aˀd, “bone”) and Kott araŋan (“bones”), Kott ar-ša (“knee”).

Noun

аʼт (aˀd) n

  1. bone
    Ат ульбагольта, бареӈ биньтъль. (Kellog dialect)
    Āt ulʲbaɣɔlʲta, barɛŋ binʲtʌːlʲ.
    I was soaked in the rain, I was frozen to my bones.
  2. height
    Ейге боӈсьуль билебет бинд атдас. (Surgutiha dialect)
    Ɛjɣɛ bɔŋsʲúːlʲ [t]biːlɛbɛt bind atdas.
    He made an iron coffin[1] to his own height.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [aʔt˥˧], [aʔɾ˥˧][2]

Derived terms

  • аруӈу (aduŋu, aruŋu, “strong”)
  • атбул (adbul, “join, vertebra”)
  • атеӈоӄ (adeŋóq, “skeleton”)

References

  1. ^ "Iron coffin" refers to a sled that is to be used on a long voyage, euphemistically called so because most were not expected to return after going away in such hunting expeditions.
  2. ^ In compounds and before suffixes.
  • Kotorova, Elizaveta, Nefedov, Andrey (2015) “aˀd (n., adeŋ)”, in Большой словарь кетского языка, Münich: LINCOM, →ISBN, pages 75-76
  • Vajda, Edward (2024) The Languages and Linguistics of Northern Asia: Language Families (The World of Linguistics [WOL]; 10.1)‎[1], volume 1, Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter Mouton, →DOI, →ISBN, page 395
  • Werner, Heinrich (2002) “аʼт”, in Словарь кетско-русский и русско-кетский: Учебное пособие для учащихся начальной школы‎[2], 2 edition, Saint-Petersburg: Drofa, →ISBN, page 18
  • Werner, Heinrich (2002) “aˀt (I, 2, n., Pl. ár'eŋ)”, in Vergleichendes Wörterbuch der Jenissej-Sprachen, Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, →ISBN, page 86
This article is issued from Wiktionary. The text is available under Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 unless otherwise noted. Additional terms may apply for the media files.