Reconstruction:Proto-Yeniseian/bej

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

  • *baj (per Werner 2002)
  • *bej (per Cologne group 2023. Pattern: b.1-j.1)

Etymology

Compared to Proto-Na-Dene *kˀʷejx; Proto-Athabaskan *čʔʷǝj ~ *čˀʷi (“wind, blow”), Eyak kˀuˑj (“wind”), Tlingit √xeex (ʔux, “blow”) and Tlingit óox (ùːx, “breath of air exhaled by a sea mammal”); which would reflect a hypothetical Proto-Dene-Yeniseian *bejx.

Werner (2002) includes Nganasan биә (biə) and Tundra Nenets пыв (piw°, “fresh and dry wind; air in spring”) at the end for a potential origin for the Yeniseian root.

Noun

*bej (no plural)

  1. wind, blow

Descendants

  • Ketic:
    • Ket: бей (bēˑj)
    • Yug: бей (bēj)
  • Kottic:
  • Arinic:
  • Pumpokolic:

Further reading

  • Bonmann, Svenja, Fries, Simon, Korobzow, Natalie, Günther, Laura, Hill, Eugen (2023) “Towards a New Reconstruction of the Proto-Yeniseian Sound System. Part I: Word-Initial Consonants”, in International Journal of Eurasian Linguistics‎[1], number 5, Brill, →DOI, →ISSN, page 46 of 39-82
  • 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[2], number 6, Brill, →DOI, →ISSN, page 258 of 216-293
  • Fortescue, Michael, Vajda, Edward (2022) “*bej”, in Mid-Holocene Language Connections between Asia and North America (Brill's Studies in the Indigenous Languages of the Americas; 17)‎[3], Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 383
  • Vajda, Edward, Werner, Heinrich (2022) “*bej”, in Comparative-Historical Yeniseian Dictionary (Languages of the World/Dictionaries; 79, 80), Muenchen: LINCOM GmbH, →ISBN, page 120
  • Vajda, Edward (2024) “*bej”, in The Languages and Linguistics of Northern Asia: Language Families (The World of Linguistics [WOL]; 10.1)‎[4], volume 1, Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter Mouton, →DOI, →ISBN, page 416
  • Werner, Heinrich (2002) “(1) beˑj (n., Pl. bejeŋ)”, in Vergleichendes Wörterbuch der Jenissej-Sprachen, Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, →ISBN, pages 122-123
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