Reconstruction:Proto-Samoyedic/ńërkå
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]
Descendants
- Nganasan: нирку (njirku, “aspen”)[3]
- Enets:
- Forest Enets: ныга (niga, “branch; bush, shrub”), ныгара (nigara, “willow”)[4]
- Nenets:
- Proto-Selkup: *ńarqə[6]
- Kamassian: нарга (narga)[9]
- Mator: ньэргэ (ńe̮rge̮), нэргэ (ne̮rge̮)[10]
References
- ^ Entry #655 in Uralonet, online Uralic etymological database of the Hungarian Research Centre for Linguistics.
- ^ Janhunen, Juha. 1977. Samojedischer Wortschatz: Gemeinsamojedische Etymologien ('Samoyedic Vocabulary: Common Samoyedic Etymologies'). Castreanianumin toimitteita 17. Helsinki: Suomalais-Ugrilainen Seura. →ISBN.
- ^ N. T. Kosterkina, A. C. Momde, T. Y. Zhdanova (2001) Словарь нганасанско-русский и русско-нганасанский, St. Petersburg: Просвещение, →ISBN, page 117
- ^ 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
- ^ N. M. Tereschenko (2005) Словарь ненецко-русский и русско-ненецкий, 3rd edition, Saint Petersburg: Просвещение, →ISBN, page 66
- ^ T. Janurik (2023) “A protoszölkup nyelvállapot és fejleményei. Elektronikus kézirat.”, in Szamojéd Tudástár[2] (in Hungarian), page 28
- ^ 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
- ^ 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
- ^ Donner, Kai R. (1944) Kamassisches Wörterbuch nebst Sprachproben und Hauptzügen der Grammatik[3], Helsinki: Suomalais-Ugrilainen Seura, page 44
- ^ E. Helimski (1997) N. Beáta, editor, Die Matorische Sprache[4] (in German), Szeged: JATE Finnugor Tanszék, →ISBN, page 319