Reconstruction:Proto-Samoyedic/ńërkå

This Proto-Samoyedic 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-Samoyedic

Alternative reconstructions

  • (Nganasan, possibly Enets) *ńïrkå
  • (Selkup, Kamassian) *ńərkå

Etymology

Uncertain. Has been compared with Proto-Uralic *ńüre (twig; sprout)[1], but the vowel correspondence is irregular. The variation in the first vowel may suggest a non-native origin.

Noun

*ńërkå[2]

  1. willow

Descendants

  • Nganasan: нирку (njirku, aspen)[3]
  • Enets:
    • Forest Enets: ныга (niga, branch; bush, shrub), ныгара (nigara, willow)[4]
  • Nenets:
  • Proto-Selkup: *ńarqə[6]
    • Northern Selkup: нярӄы (njarqy)[7]
    • Southern Selkup:[8]
      • Tym: нярӷ (njarģ), нярг (njarg), няргэ (njarge)
      • Ket: нярӷ (njarģ)
  • Kamassian: нарга (narga)[9]
  • Mator: ньэргэ (ńe̮rge̮), нэргэ (ne̮rge̮)[10]

References

  1. ^ Entry #655 in Uralonet, online Uralic etymological database of the Hungarian Research Centre for Linguistics.
  2. ^ Janhunen, Juha. 1977. Samojedischer Wortschatz: Gemeinsamojedische Etymologien ('Samoyedic Vocabulary: Common Samoyedic Etymologies'). Castreanianumin toimitteita 17. Helsinki: Suomalais-Ugrilainen Seura. →ISBN.
  3. ^ N. T. Kosterkina, A. C. Momde, T. Y. Zhdanova (2001) Словарь нганасанско-русский и русско-нганасанский, St. Petersburg: Просвещение, →ISBN, page 117
  4. ^ P. N. Sorokina (2001) C. D. Bolina, editor, Словарь Энецко-русский и Русско-Энецкий [Forest Enets-Russian and Russian-Forest Enets dictionary]‎[1], Saint-Petersburg, page 85
  5. ^ N. M. Tereschenko (2005) Словарь ненецко-русский и русско-ненецкий, 3rd edition, Saint Petersburg: Просвещение, →ISBN, page 66
  6. ^ T. Janurik (2023) “A protoszölkup nyelvállapot és fejleményei. Elektronikus kézirat.”, in Szamojéd Tudástár[2] (in Hungarian), page 28
  7. ^ O. A. Kazakevich, Ye. M. Budyanskaya (2010) Диалектологический словарь селькупского языка (северное наречие) [Dialectological dictionary of the Selkup language (Northern continuum)], Yekaterinburg: Institute of Philology of the Siberian Branch of the RAS; Баско, →ISBN, page 88 of 368
  8. ^ V.V. Bykonya, N.G. Kuznetsova, N.P. Maksimova (2005) Селькупско-русский диалектный словарь [Selkup-Russian dialectal dictionary], Tomsk: Томский государственный педагогический университет, →ISBN, page 161, 162 of 348
  9. ^ Donner, Kai R. (1944) Kamassisches Wörterbuch nebst Sprachproben und Hauptzügen der Grammatik[3], Helsinki: Suomalais-Ugrilainen Seura, page 44
  10. ^ E. Helimski (1997) N. Beáta, editor, Die Matorische Sprache[4] (in German), Szeged: JATE Finnugor Tanszék, →ISBN, page 319