дик

Inherited from Proto-Yeniseian *ɟejq (“pitch, conifer resin; flexible”). Cognate with Yug дьик (dʲīk) and Kott čîk (“resin; sulphur”).

Doublet of дигим (diɣim, “flexible”), which is from the adjectivization of the same root.

дик (dīk)

1. tree resin; any viscous liquid that resembles resin

   Сьесьдаӈаль дик угаӷан. (Kellog dialect)

   Sʲɛsʲdaŋalʲ dīk uɣáʁan.

   Resin oozes out of the larch tree.

   Хитесяӈ дик. (Kureyka dialect)

   Hidɛsʲaŋ dīk.

   Sulfur for gluing.

   Дыльдаӈа огдиӈта дик. (Maduyka dialect)

   Dɨlʲdaŋa ɔgdiŋta dīk.

   The baby has earwax in her ears.

   Ат өксьдаӈа ӄутолькит: Ӄан дик кибоӷут алиӈ — дикту өксь. (Сказки Народов Сибирского Севера, 1972 (СНСС72:192))

   Āt ɔksʲdaŋa tqutɔlʲgit: Qan dīk kibɔʁut aliŋ ‒ diktu ōksʲ.

   I climbed a tree: The resin was very sticky ‒ the tree was [very] resinous.

• IPA^(key): [diˑk˧]

• Fortescue, Michael, Vajda, Edward (2022) “57.) ~*ɟejmq”, in Mid-Holocene Language Connections between Asia and North America (Brill's Studies in the Indigenous Languages of the Americas; 17)‎^[1], Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, pages 352-353
• Kotorova, Elizaveta, Nefedov, Andrey (2015) “147”, in Большой словарь кетского языка, Münich: LINCOM, →ISBN, page dīk (n., no pl.)
• Vajda, Edward (2024) “*ɟejq/*ɟejq- (Table 16:4)”, in The Languages and Linguistics of Northern Asia: Language Families (The World of Linguistics [WOL]; 10.1)‎^[2], volume 1, Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter Mouton, →DOI, →ISBN, page 413
• Werner, Heinrich (2002) “дик (с) [мн. нет]”, in Словарь кетско-русский и русско-кетский: Учебное пособие для учащихся начальной школы‎^[3], 2 edition, Saint-Petersburg: Drofa, →ISBN, page 31
• Werner, Heinrich (2002) “(1) diˑk”, in Vergleichendes Wörterbuch der Jenissej-Sprachen, Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, →ISBN, page 193

• IPA^(key): [dʲik]

дик • (dik)

1. short masculine singular of ди́кий (díkij)