Reconstruction:Proto-Eskimo/ǝŋlu

This Proto-Eskimo entry contains reconstructed terms and roots. As such, the term(s) in this entry are not directly attested, but are hypothesized to have existed based on comparative evidence.

Proto-Eskimo

Noun

*ǝŋlu

house

Descendants

Proto-Yupik: *ǝŋlu
- Alutiiq: engluq
- Yup'ik: ngel'u, nel'u
- Naukanski: ы́нлу, énlu
- Central Siberian Yupik: nenglu
- Sirenik: лю (lu)
Proto-Inuit: *ǝɣlu
- Inupiaq: iglu
- Inuktitut: ᐃᒡᓗ (iclo, “house, habitation”)
  - → English: igloo, iglu
    - → Italian: iglù
    - → Portuguese: iglu
    - → Thai: อิกลู (ìk-luu)
  - Inuvialuktun: iglu
    - Inuinnaqtun: iglu
  - Eastern Canadian Inuktitut: ᐃᓪᓗ, illu
    - Qikiqtaaluk nigiani: ᐃᓪᓗ (illo)
    - Nunavimmiutitut: illu
    - Nunatsiavummiut: illuk
  - Inuktun: iglu
- Greenlandic: illu (“house”)
  - → Danish: iglo (“igloo”)
- Tunumiisut: ittiq

References

Fortescue, Michael, Jacobson, Steven, Kaplan, Lawrence (2010) Comparative Eskimo Dictionary with Aleut Cognates, 2nd edition, Fairbanks: Alaska Native Language Center: University of Alaska Fairbanks, →ISBN, page 123