Reconstruction:Proto-Samoyedic/mäktə

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

  • (Older reconstruction) *mektə

Etymology

Likely from Proto-Uralic *mäkte[1], whence Finnish mätäs and Northern Sami miekta. However, the preservation of the cluster *-kt- is unexpected.

Noun

*mäktə[2]

  1. tussock

Descendants

  • Nenets:
    • Forest Nenets: меʼт (myeht)[3]
  • Proto-Selkup: *mēktə[4]
    • Northern Selkup: мэкты (mekty)[5]
    • Southern Selkup:
      • Narym: мехт (mjext)[6]
      • Upper Ob: миэкт (miekt)[7]
  • Kamassian: мекте (mekte)[8]
    • Koibal: бакти (bakti)[9]

References

  1. ^ Entry #525 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. ^ M. Y. Barmich, I. A. Vello (2002) Словарь ненецко-русский и русско-ненецкий (лесной диалект), Просвещение, →ISBN, page 68
  4. ^ T. Janurik (2023) “A protoszölkup nyelvállapot és fejleményei. Elektronikus kézirat.”, in Szamojéd Tudástár[1] (in Hungarian), page 26
  5. ^ 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 79 of 368
  6. ^ I. A. Korobeynikova (2020) Родное слово [Native word], Tomsk: Аграф-Пресс; Вайар, →ISBN, page 75 of 240
  7. ^ G. Yu. Kostyuchenko (2023) Тюйкуй Йэжиссан – Селькупский словарь для остяков Молчановского района [Tjuykuy Yezhissan – Selkup dictionary for Molchanovo district Selkup people], Molchanovo, page 45 of 109
  8. ^ Donner, Kai R. (1944) Kamassisches Wörterbuch nebst Sprachproben und Hauptzügen der Grammatik[2], Helsinki: Suomalais-Ugrilainen Seura, page 38
  9. ^ T. Janurik (2021) Kojbál szótár: a publikált szójegyzékek egyesített szótára.[3] (in Hungarian), Székesfehérvár, pages 22, 59