Reconstruction:Proto-Samoyedic/jaə

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

Etymology

Likely borrowed from an Iranian language, ultimately from Proto-Iranian *yáwah (barley; cereal, grain). Compare Ossetian йӕу (jæw).

Noun

*jaə

  1. flour

Descendants

  • Nganasan: дяа (djaa)[1]
  • Enets:
    • Forest Enets: дяса (djasa)[2]
  • Nenets:
    • Forest Nenets: дя (dya)[3]
    • Tundra Nenets: я (ya)[4]

References

  1. ^ N. T. Kosterkina, A. C. Momde, T. Y. Zhdanova (2001) Словарь нганасанско-русский и русско-нганасанский, St. Petersburg: Просвещение, →ISBN, page 52
  2. ^ 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 39
  3. ^ M. Y. Barmich, I. A. Vello (2002) Словарь ненецко-русский и русско-ненецкий (лесной диалект), Просвещение, →ISBN, page 33
  4. ^ N. M. Tereschenko (2005) Словарь ненецко-русский и русско-ненецкий, 3rd edition, Saint Petersburg: Просвещение, →ISBN, page 171