Reconstruction:Proto-Yeniseian/ɬVb

This Proto-Yeniseian 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-Yeniseian

Alternative reconstructions

*laˀpʰ- (for Ketic, per Werner 2002)
*alVp, *alʲVp, *ar₁Vp (per Starostin 1994-2005)
*alʌp, *lʌːp (for Kottic and Arin), *lap (for Ketic, per Vajda-Werner 2022)
*lab (per Fortescue-Vajda 2022)
*λVp, *λVb (per Cologne group 2024. Pattern: ?-p.1)

Etymology

Potentially onomatopoeic.

Noun

*ɬVb (plural *ɬVb-Vŋ)

(anatomy) tongue
Synonym: *ej (Ketic and Pumpokolic)

Derived terms

*ugʷVŋʷɬVb (“mosquito, midge”, literally “long-tongue”)

Descendants

Ketic:
- ⇒ Imbak Ket: lâf (“chunk”) (listed as 'Jenissej-Ostjakisch')
  - ⇒ Ket: лаб (láb-, “to bite”) (action nominal)
  - ⇒ Ket: ламта (lamta, “bite chunk”)
- ⇒ Yug: лап (láp-, “to bite”) (action nominal)
Kottic:
- Assan: alûp, alup
- Kott: alup, alûp, alub
  - ⇒ Kott: alûpfun, alûppun (“dumb”, literally “tongue-without”)
Arinic:
- Arin: á-l'ap, ɛ-lep (“his tongue”)

Hill, Eugen, Fries, Simon, Korobzow, Natalie, Günther, Laura, Svenja, Bonmann (2024) “Towards a New Reconstruction of the Proto-Yeniseian Sound System. Part II: Word-Final Consonants”, in International Journal of Eurasian Linguistics‎^[1], number 6, Brill, →DOI, →ISSN, page 226 of 216-293
Hill, Eugen, Fries, Simon, Korobzow, Natalie, Günther, Laura, Svenja, Bonmann (2024) “Coda-p.1 (Table 21)”, in “Towards a New Reconstruction of the Proto-Yeniseian Sound System. Part II: Word-Final Consonants”, in International Journal of Eurasian Linguistics‎^[2], number 6, Brill, →DOI, →ISSN, page 279 of 216-293
Vajda, Edward, Werner, Heinrich (2022) “*alʌp”, in Comparative-Historical Yeniseian Dictionary (Languages of the World/Dictionaries; 79, 80), volume 1, Muenchen: LINCOM GmbH, →ISBN, pages 40-41
Vajda, Edward, Werner, Heinrich (2022) “*lap-č-daq”, in Comparative-Historical Yeniseian Dictionary (Languages of the World/Dictionaries; 79, 80), volume 1, Muenchen: LINCOM GmbH, →ISBN, page 477
Vajda, Edward (2024) “*ɬVb”, in The Languages and Linguistics of Northern Asia: Language Families (The World of Linguistics [WOL]; 10.1)‎^[3], volume 1, Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter Mouton, →DOI, →ISBN, page 417
Werner, Heinrich (2002) “láppɨŋ (jug.)”, in Vergleichendes Wörterbuch der Jenissej-Sprachen, volume 2, Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, →ISBN, pages 2-3
Werner, Heinrich (2005) “tongue”, in Die Jenissej-Sprachen des 18. Jahrhunderts, Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, →ISBN, page 329