куʼ

See also: Appendix:Variations of "ku"

Ket

Etymology

An apocopate derivation from кугуль (“glowing coal, charred log”), as evident by the 18th century attested Imbak Ket kóhil (“coal, embers”);[1] from Late Proto-Yeniseian *kʰu-pʰʌλ (“coal”), most likely derived from Proto-Yeniseian *kuw (“coal”).

Cognate with Yug куфыл (kúfɨl), Kott hupôj, Assan kuvulán and Arin kuburúŋ (“glowing coals”).

Perhaps related to Proto-Turkic *kȫ-ń- (“to burn”) and Proto-Mongolic *köge (“soot, obstacle, hindrance”), however, whether Yeniseian forms are the progenitor or were borrowed from either Mongolic or Turkic forms is not clear.[2]

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [kuʔᵘ˥˧]

Noun

куʼ (kuˀ) n (no plural)

  1. (geology) coal
    Бокту куʼ. (Kureyka dialect)
    Bɔktu kuˀ.
    Coal on fire.
    Буӈ куʼ дбоклаӈӄаверян аатэдесяӈ. (Surgutiha dialect)
    Būŋ kuˀ dbɔklaŋqavɛrʲan aːtɛdɛsʲaŋ.
    They are burning coal to forge [iron in the future.]
  2. soot
    Куту тынтыга ат далильбет. (Kellog dialect)
    Kutu tɨntɨɣa āt dālilʲbɛt.
    I cooked some soup in a soot-covered cauldron.

References

  1. ^ Werner, Heinrich (2005) “kóhil (M, W)”, in Die Jenissej-Sprachen des 18. Jahrhunderts, Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, →ISBN, page 48
  2. ^ Khabtagaeva, Bayarma (2019) Language Contact in Siberia: Turkic, Mongolic, and Tungusic Loanwords in Yeniseian (The languages of Asia series; 19)‎[1], Brill, →ISBN, pages 36-37
  • Kotorova, Elizaveta, Nefedov, Andrey (2015) “kuˀ”, in Большой словарь кетского языка, Münich: LINCOM, →ISBN, page 242
  • Vajda, Edward, Werner, Heinrich (2022) “*kʰupʰʌλ”, in Comparative-Historical Yeniseian Dictionary (Languages of the World/Dictionaries; 79, 80), Muenchen: LINCOM GmbH, →ISBN, pages 469-470
  • Werner, Heinrich (2002) “куʼ (с) (мн. нет)”, in Словарь кетско-русский и русско-кетский: Учебное пособие для учащихся начальной школы‎[2], 2 edition, Saint-Petersburg: Drofa, →ISBN, page 48
  • Werner, Heinrich (2002) “kúγul'/³ku:l'”, in Vergleichendes Wörterbuch der Jenissej-Sprachen, Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, →ISBN, page 457
  • Werner, Heinrich (2002) “²kuˀ”, in Vergleichendes Wörterbuch der Jenissej-Sprachen, Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, →ISBN, page 457
  • Werner, Heinrich (2005) “coal”, in Die Jenissej-Sprachen des 18. Jahrhunderts, Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, →ISBN, page 288
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