куʼсь

Ket

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Etymology

From earlier kuːs, kusʲ (“cow”) and kuːš, kuhsch (“horse”);[1] from Proto-Ketic *kʰuˀs, itself inherited from Proto-Yeniseian *kus (“horse”). Proto-Yeniseian word is most likely borrowed from Proto-Indo-European *gʷṓws (“cattle”), with the semantic shift of stallion < cattle occuring presumably early in history. In turn, distantly cognate with English cow.

Cognate with Kott xuš, guš, huš (“horse”), hučanse (“equine”), hučô (“on horseback”), pen-kuš (“mare”), Assan huš, hɨš (“horse”), pen-guš (“mare”), Arin qus, kus, kun (“horse”), qúše (“mare”), pinü-kuče (“mare”) and Pumpokol kutt, kut (“horse”). Also partially cognate with Kott at-úš (“gelding”) and Assan at-bíš, at-íːš, at-úːš (“gelding”), where the Kottic words were compounded with Proto-Turkic *at (“horse”).

Also compare Xiongnu 駃騠 (*kʷeːd.deː /⁠*kuti⁠/, “horse”), as proposed by Vovin (2000).[2]

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): (singular) [kuʔᵘsʲ˥˧], [kuʔʃ̬˥˧], (plural) [ˈkusʲ.n̩], [ˈkuʃ̬.n̩]

Noun

куʼсь (kuˀsʲ) f (plural кусьн (kusʲn))

  1. (zoology) cow
    Кусьд иӈолт. (Alinskoe dialect)
    Kusʲd iŋɔlt.
    Leather of a cow.
    Ӄоресь ъта кусьдиӈтен хъна куйгит сигатонаӄ. (Kellog dialect)
    Qɔrɛsʲ, ʌta kusʲdiŋtɛn hʌna kujɣit siɣatɔnaq.
    Yesterday, our cow had given birth to a bull calf.
    Туда кусьдиӈта кытту мамуль. (Kureyka dialect)
    Tuɾa kusʲdiŋta kɨttu mamulʲ.
    Milk of that cow is quite fatty.

References

  1. ^ Werner, Heinrich (2005) “kuːs (M, W, Kl); kuːš (eed., Mes)”, in Die Jenissej-Sprachen des 18. Jahrhunderts, Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, →ISBN, page 48
  2. ^ Vovin, Alexander (2000) “Did the Xiong-nu Speak a Yeniseian Language?”, in Central Asiatic Journal‎[1], volume 44, number 1, Harrassowitz Verlag
  • Bonmann, Svenja, Fries, Simon, Korobzow, Natalie, Günther, Laura, Hill, Eugen (2023) “cow (Table 11)”, in “Towards a New Reconstruction of the Proto-Yeniseian Sound System. Part I: Word-Initial Consonants”, in International Journal of Eurasian Linguistics‎[2], number 5, Brill, →DOI, →ISSN, page 55 of 39-82
  • Hill, Eugen, Fries, Simon, Korobzow, Natalie, Günther, Laura, Svenja, Bonmann (2024) “horse (Table 11)”, in “Towards a New Reconstruction of the Proto-Yeniseian Sound System. Part II: Word-Final Consonants”, in International Journal of Eurasian Linguistics‎[3], number 6, Brill, →DOI, →ISSN, page 251 of 216-293
  • Fortescue, Michael, Vajda, Edward (2022) Mid-Holocene Language Connections between Asia and North America (Brill's Studies in the Indigenous Languages of the Americas; 17)‎[4], Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 268
  • Kotorova, Elizaveta, Nefedov, Andrey (2015) “kuˀs”, in Большой словарь кетского языка, Münich: LINCOM, →ISBN, page 247
  • Vajda, Edward, Werner, Heinrich (2022) “*kʰuˀs”, in Comparative-Historical Yeniseian Dictionary (Languages of the World/Dictionaries; 79, 80), Muenchen: LINCOM GmbH, →ISBN, page 470
  • Vajda, Edward (2024) “*kus (Table 15)”, in The Languages and Linguistics of Northern Asia: Language Families (The World of Linguistics [WOL]; 10.1)‎[5], volume 1, Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter Mouton, →DOI, →ISBN, page 412
  • Werner, Heinrich (2002) “корова (ж)”, in Словарь кетско-русский и русско-кетский: Учебное пособие для учащихся начальной школы‎[6], 2 edition, Saint-Petersburg: Drofa, →ISBN, page 165
  • Werner, Heinrich (2002) “²kuˀs”, in Vergleichendes Wörterbuch der Jenissej-Sprachen, Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, →ISBN, page 457
  • Werner, Heinrich (2005) “cow”, in Die Jenissej-Sprachen des 18. Jahrhunderts, Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, →ISBN, page 289
  • Werner, Heinrich (2005) “horse”, in Die Jenissej-Sprachen des 18. Jahrhunderts, Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, →ISBN, page 303
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