дит

Ket

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Etymology

From earlier dɨd,[1] from Proto-Ketic *dīˑɟ, ultimately inherited from Proto-Yeniseian *ɟex (wood grouse). Cognate with Yug дидь (dīdʲ) and probably[2] also Kott fêŋ-čer-a (female wood grouse, literally female-grouse-feminine suffix).

Noun

дит (dītm (pl. дэкӈ (dɛ́kŋ))

  1. (ornithology) wood grouse, Western capercaillie
    Ынь дэкӈ, ӄаська таяӈӷотин. (Kellog dialect)
    Ɨ̄nʲ dɛkŋ, qasʲka ttajaŋɢɔtin.
    Two grouse walking along the sandbar.
    Дэкнаӈт хай тунбес ӄоппеяӈ. (Kureyka dialect)
    Dɛknaŋt haj tunbɛs qɔppɛjaŋ.
    Grouse have goiters like that, too.
    Ат таӷайокся дит. (Sulomay dialect)
    Āt ttaʁajɔksʲa dīt.
    I'm going to shoot a grouse [for hunting.]

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [diˑt˦]

Derived terms

  • дэткит (dɛtkit, grouse chick)
  • дэттай (dɛttaj, a flock of grouse; grouse mating ground)
  • дэтто (dɛttɔ́, grouse-hunt)
  • ӄирит (qirit, male grouse)
  • хаӈдит (haŋədít, female grouse)

References

  1. ^ Werner, Heinrich (2005) “dɨd (Das Imbazkische)”, in Die Jenissej-Sprachen des 18. Jahrhunderts, Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, →ISBN, page 44
  2. ^ Vajda, Edward (2024) “footnote 14”, in 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 387
  • Fortescue, Michael, Vajda, Edward (2022) “4.) ~*dedʳ”, in Mid-Holocene Language Connections between Asia and North America (Brill's Studies in the Indigenous Languages of the Americas; 17)‎[2], Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, pages 328-329
  • Kotorova, Elizaveta, Nefedov, Andrey (2015) “dīd (m., dekŋ)”, in Большой словарь кетского языка, Münich: LINCOM, →ISBN, page 147
  • Werner, Heinrich (2002) “дит (I; м.) [мн. дэкӈ]”, in Словарь кетско-русский и русско-кетский: Учебное пособие для учащихся начальной школы[3], 2 edition, Saint-Petersburg: Drofa, →ISBN, page 32
  • Werner, Heinrich (2002) “(1) diˑt (I; m., Pl. dɛkŋ)”, in Vergleichendes Wörterbuch der Jenissej-Sprachen, Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, →ISBN, page 193