Reconstruction:Proto-Yeniseian/cijga

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

  • *tʲi-kə (per Werner 2002)
  • *čiki (per Starostin 1994-2005)
  • *tʲigə (per Khabtagaeva 2019)[1]
  • *tʲigʌ (per Vajda-Werner 2022)
  • *ciC (per Cologne group 2023. Pattern: t.1-?)

Etymology

Composed of *cij (swan?) +‎ *-ga (nominalizer suffix).

Noun

*cijga (plural *cij-ga-n)

  1. (zoology, ornithology) swan
    Coordinate terms: *ban (duck), *bix (loon), *potʳ (merganser), *tʳaɢa (a kind of diving duck), *cam (goose), *ɟex (wood grouse)

Descendants

  • Ketic:
    • Imbak Ket: tíge
      • Ket: тиг (tīɣ) (Southern dialects), тигъ (tīɣʌ) (Central and Northern dialects)
    • Yug: чик (čīk)
  • Kottic:
    • Kott: šîgi

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 217

Further reading

  • Bonmann, Svenja, Fries, Simon, Korobzow, Natalie, Günther, Laura, Hill, Eugen (2023) “'swan'”, 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 53 of 39-82
  • Bonmann, Svenja, Fries, Simon, Korobzow, Natalie, Günther, Laura, Hill, Eugen (2023) “t.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
  • 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)‎[4], Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 265
  • Vajda, Edward, Werner, Heinrich (2022) “*tʲigʌ”, in Comparative-Historical Yeniseian Dictionary (Languages of the World/Dictionaries; 79, 80), volume 2, Muenchen: LINCOM GmbH, →ISBN, page 949
  • Vajda, Edward (2024) The Languages and Linguistics of Northern Asia: Language Families (The World of Linguistics [WOL]; 10.1)‎[5], volume 1, Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter Mouton, →DOI, →ISBN, page 380
  • Werner, Heinrich (2002) “(1) tiˑγ/(1) tiˑx”, in Vergleichendes Wörterbuch der Jenissej-Sprachen, Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, →ISBN, page 270
  • Werner, Heinrich (2005) “swan”, in Die Jenissej-Sprachen des 18. Jahrhunderts, Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, →ISBN, page 327