Reconstruction:Proto-Eskimo/nukaʀ

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

*nukaʀ

younger sibling (of the same sex)

Derived terms

*nukaʀaʀ (“second wife”)

Descendants

Proto-Yupik: *nukaʀ
- Yup'ik: nukaq
- Naukanski: nukaq
- Sirenik: nuka, nukəχ (“sister”)
Proto-Inuit: *nukaq
- North Alaskan Inupiatun: nugaq
- Northwest Alaskan Inupiatun: nukaq, nuka
- Inuvialuktun: nukaq
  - Inuinnaqtun: nukaq
- Inuktitut: ᓄᑲᖅ (nokaq), nukaq
- Inuktun: nukaq
- Greenlandic: nukaq, nukag (“to be a spoiled child”)
- Tunumiisut: nukaq

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