ӄоʼт
See also: кот
Ket
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [qɔʔt˥˧]
Etymology 1
From earlier xoːt, xot,[1] Inherited from Proto-Yeniseian *qowd (“trail”), perhaps borrowed from Evenki хокто (hokto, “road”), from Proto-Tungusic *pokta.
Noun
ӄоʼт (qɔˀt) n (irregular plural ӄынеӈ (qɨ́nɛŋ)[2])
- road, way
- Synonym: ӄык (qɨ̄k)
- Ат кинесь богот, ӄоʼт аӄтам. (Maduyka dialect)
- Āt kinɛsʲ bɔɣɔt, qɔˀt aqtam.
- I'll go this way, it's a nice road.
Etymology 2
From Proto-Ketic *-qoˀtʲ (“to cry”).
Action nominal
ӄоʼт (qɔˀt-) (conjugation II)
- (used with intransitive, inchoative) to cry, crying
- Дыллят ӄотнаӈбинсяӈ — ӄодоӈӄон. (Kellog dialect)
- Dɨllʲat qɔtnaŋbinsʲaŋ — qɔɾɔŋɢɔŋ. (qɔˀd-[k-]ɔŋ-qɔ(n-)ŋ)
- The children are scared and they started crying.
- Ӄоʼтьбәньнада. (Sulomay dialect)
- Qɔˀtʲ-bə̄nʲ-naɾa.
- You need not cry.
References
Further reading
- Kotorova, Elizaveta, Nefedov, Andrey (2015) “qoˀd (1, 2)”, in Большой словарь кетского языка, Münich: LINCOM, →ISBN, pages 302-303
- Kotorova, Elizaveta, Nefedov, Andrey (2015) “qod(7)-k(5)-a(4)-qan~qon(0)”, in Большой словарь кетского языка, Münich: LINCOM, →ISBN, page 600
- Vajda, Edward, Werner, Heinrich (2022) “*qoˀtʲ”, in Comparative-Historical Yeniseian Dictionary (Languages of the World/Dictionaries; 79, 80), volume 2, Muenchen: LINCOM GmbH, →ISBN, page 712
- Werner, Heinrich (2002) “ӄоʼт (I, II)”, in Словарь кетско-русский и русско-кетский: Учебное пособие для учащихся начальной школы[1], 2 edition, Saint-Petersburg: Drofa, →ISBN, page 61
- Werner, Heinrich (2002) “²qɔˀt (I, II)”, in Vergleichendes Wörterbuch der Jenissej-Sprachen, Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, →ISBN, page 123
- Werner, Heinrich (2005) “way”, in Die Jenissej-Sprachen des 18. Jahrhunderts, Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, →ISBN, page 332