Ӄук
Ket
Etymology
From 18th century Ostyak Ket guːk,[1] derived from Proto-Yeniseian *ɢujkʷ (“hole”). In Ket and Yugh mythology, the legendary hero Alba bore a hole through mountains so that Yenisei could flow north, hence the name.
Other names for the river Yenisei in other Yeniseian languages; Ostyak Yug xä-sês (xä-seːs), Kott pača-ul' (pača-ulʲ), Assan urgabɨ, Assan pača-ûl' (pača-uːlʲ) and Arin jikhuj; reflect a common compound, meaning big-river, while Kott kem and Assan kam reflect the historical name of the river that would be loaned into neighbouring languages, most notably into Orkhon Turkic 𐰚𐰃𐰢 (kim /kem, kim/, “upper reaches of the Yenisei”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [quˑk˧], [quˑɣ˧]
Proper noun
Ӄук (Qūk) n or m (no plural)
- (hydrology) the Yenisei River; traditional Ket name for the Yenisei
- Әтн хаа Ӄукдина дондаӈдагин. (Kellog dialect)
- Ə̄tn háà Qugdiŋa dɔndaŋdaɣin.
- We went straight to the Yenisei.
- Колет Красноярск Ӄукд ӄаатига хаапта. (Kureyka dialect)
- Kɔlɛt Krasnɔjarsk Qugd qaːtiɣa háàpta.
- The city of Krasnoyarsk stands on the banks of the Yenisei.
References
- ^ Werner, Heinrich (2005) “guːk [Das Ostjakische]”, in Die Jenissej-Sprachen des 18. Jahrhunderts, Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, →ISBN, page 83
Further reading
- Kotorova, Elizaveta, Nefedov, Andrey (2015) “qūk (1)”, in Большой словарь кетского языка, Münich: LINCOM, →ISBN, page 322
- Vajda, Edward, Werner, Heinrich (2022) “*Quk”, in Comparative-Historical Yeniseian Dictionary (Languages of the World/Dictionaries; 79, 80), volume 2, Muenchen: LINCOM GmbH, →ISBN, page 722
- Werner, Heinrich (2002) “Ӄук”, in Словарь кетско-русский и русско-кетский: Учебное пособие для учащихся начальной школы[1], 2 edition, Saint-Petersburg: Drofa, →ISBN, page 63
- Werner, Heinrich (2002) “¹Quˑk”, in Vergleichendes Wörterbuch der Jenissej-Sprachen, volume 2, Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, →ISBN, page 140
- Werner, Heinrich (2005) “Yenisei”, in Die Jenissej-Sprachen des 18. Jahrhunderts, Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, →ISBN, page 335