Reconstruction:Proto-Yeniseian/beg

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

  • *boˀk (per Werner 2002 and Vajda-Werner 2022)
  • *bowgʷ (per Fortescue-Vajda 2022)

Etymology

Compared to Proto-Na-Dene *ʔwiˑgʷ; Proto-Athabaskan *weˑdžʳ, *weˑgʷ (“to cook, to boil”) and Tlingit ook (ʔu`g, “to boil”).

Noun

*beg (plural *beg-ja-n)

  1. fire
    Synonyms: *tʳen, *qown, *ɢat
  2. light
    Synonym: *dʳajn

Descendants

  • Ketic:
    • Imbak Ket: boók (Eed-Šeš dialect)
    • Imbak Ket: boːk, bok
    • Ostyak Yug: bog, bok
  • Kottic:
    • ⇒ Kott: pigačei, pigaičei (“to roast, to fry”)[1][2]
  • Pumpokolic:
    • Pumpokol: butsch, buč

References

  1. ^ Werner, Heinrich (2002) “pigaičei”, in Vergleichendes Wörterbuch der Jenissej-Sprachen, Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, →ISBN, page 54
  2. ^ Vajda, Edward, Werner, Heinrich (2022) “pigačei”, in Comparative-Historical Yeniseian Dictionary (Languages of the World/Dictionaries; 79, 80), Muenchen: LINCOM GmbH, →ISBN, page 532

Further reading

  • Fortescue, Michael, Vajda, Edward (2022) “118.) ~*bowgʷ”, in Mid-Holocene Language Connections between Asia and North America (Brill's Studies in the Indigenous Languages of the Americas; 17)‎[1], Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, pages 383-384
  • Vajda, Edward, Werner, Heinrich (2022) “*bɔˀk (1, 2)”, in Comparative-Historical Yeniseian Dictionary (Languages of the World/Dictionaries; 79, 80), Muenchen: LINCOM GmbH, →ISBN, page 148
  • Vajda, Edward (2024) “*beg-ja”, in The Languages and Linguistics of Northern Asia: Language Families (The World of Linguistics [WOL]; 10.1)‎[2], volume 1, Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter Mouton, →DOI, →ISBN, page 412
  • Werner, Heinrich (2002) “(2) bɔˀk (I, II)”, in Vergleichendes Wörterbuch der Jenissej-Sprachen, Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, →ISBN, page 145
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