Reconstruction:Proto-Yeniseian/butɬ

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

  • *būˑl (per Khabtagaeva 2019[1] and Vajda-Werner 2022)
  • *bul, *buɬ (per Fortescue-Vajda 2022)
  • *butɬ-ja (per Vajda 2024)
  • *bul, *buð (per Cologne group 2023 & 2024. Pattern: b.1-l.1)

Etymology

Noun

*butɬ (plural *butɬ-Vŋ)

  1. (anatomy, zootomy) leg
    Synonym: *kajš
Derived terms
  • *butɬowɬ (“stockings”, literally “foot-covering”)

Descendants

  • Ketic:
    • Imbak Ket: bul
      • Ket: буль (būlʲ, būˑlʲ)
      • ⇒ Ket: бул-буль (būl-bulʲ, “sledrunner's brace”)
      • ⇒ Ket: кентибуль (kɛ́ntibulʲ, “shoulder blade”, literally “arm-head-foot”)
    • Yug: буль (būlʲ)
      • ⇒ Yug: кентыбул (kɛntɨbul, “shoulder joint”, literally “arm-head-foot”)
  • Kottic:
    • ⇒ Assan: puláŋ, pulan (“feet”)
    • Kott: pul
  • Arinic:
    • Arin: pil, apil
  • Pumpokolic:
    • ⇒ Pumpokol: bulún (“to go”)

References

  1. ^ Khabtagaeva, Bayarma (2019) Language Contact in Siberia: Turkic, Mongolic, and Tungusic Loanwords in Yeniseian (The languages of Asia series; 19)‎[1], Brill, →ISBN, page 335

Further reading

  • Bonmann, Svenja, Fries, Simon, Korobzow, Natalie, Günther, Laura, Hill, Eugen (2023) “'leg, foot'”, in “Towards a New Reconstruction of the Proto-Yeniseian Sound System. Part I: Word-Initial Consonants”, in International Journal of Eurasian Linguistics‎[2], number 5, Brill, →DOI, →ISSN, page 46 of 39-82
  • Bonmann, Svenja, Fries, Simon, Korobzow, Natalie, Günther, Laura, Hill, Eugen (2023) “b.1 (Table 28)”, in “Towards a New Reconstruction of the Proto-Yeniseian Sound System. Part I: Word-Initial Consonants”, in International Journal of Eurasian Linguistics‎[3], number 5, Brill, →DOI, →ISSN, page 70 of 39-82
  • Hill, Eugen, Fries, Simon, Korobzow, Natalie, Günther, Laura, Svenja, Bonmann (2024) “Coda-l.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[4], number 6, Brill, →DOI, →ISSN, page 279 of 216-293
  • Fortescue, Michael, Vajda, Edward (2022) Mid-Holocene Language Connections between Asia and North America (Brill's Studies in the Indigenous Languages of the Americas; 17)‎[5], Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 257
  • Vajda, Edward, Werner, Heinrich (2022) “*būˑl (1, 2)”, in Comparative-Historical Yeniseian Dictionary (Languages of the World/Dictionaries; 79, 80), volume 1, Muenchen: LINCOM GmbH, →ISBN, page 164
  • Vajda, Edward (2024) “*butɬ-ja”, in The Languages and Linguistics of Northern Asia: Language Families (The World of Linguistics [WOL]; 10.1)‎[6], volume 1, Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter Mouton, →DOI, →ISBN, page 391
  • Werner, Heinrich (2002) “¹buˑl'”, in Vergleichendes Wörterbuch der Jenissej-Sprachen, volume 1, Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, →ISBN, page 153
  • Werner, Heinrich (2005) “foot”, in Die Jenissej-Sprachen des 18. Jahrhunderts, Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, →ISBN, page 297
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