Reconstruction:Proto-Yeniseian/dejç

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

  • *tej, *dej, *dejs (per Vajda 2022)
  • *de-s (per Werner 2002)
  • *deʧ, *dec (per Cologne group 2023 & 2024. Pattern: d.1-s.1)

Etymology

Composed of *dej (“eye”) +‎ *-ç (singulative suffix).

Tentatively compared to Proto-Na-Dene *teˑ (“eye”) and Proto-Athabaskan *-teˑʔ, *-taˑʔ (“eye”), which are Vajda (2022)'s own reconstructions based on Gwichʼin and Tāłtān forms.

Noun

*dej-ç (plural *dej-Vŋ)

  1. eye (singular)

Descendants

  • Ketic:
    • Ket: десь (dēˑsʲ)
      • Ket: -дис (dis, singulative suffix)
    • Yug: дес (dēs)
  • Kottic:
    • Assan: teš, tiš
    • Kott: têš, tes
      • ⇒ Kott: tes-pun, têš-fun, teš-pun (“blind”, literally “eye-without”)
  • Arinic:
    • Arin: tieŋ, tiːeŋ (plural)
    • ⇒ Arin: tenkt (“eye, eyes?”)
    • ⇒ Arin: a-tem-manča (“blind”, literally “their-eyes-without”)
  • Pumpokolic:
    • Pumpokol: dat (perhaps plural?)

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 51 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 251 of 216-293
  • Fortescue, Michael, Vajda, Edward (2022) “*13.) ~*tej”, 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 332
  • Vajda, Edward, Werner, Heinrich (2022) “*des”, in Comparative-Historical Yeniseian Dictionary (Languages of the World/Dictionaries; 79, 80), Muenchen: LINCOM GmbH, →ISBN, page 202
  • Vajda, Edward (2024) 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 413
  • Werner, Heinrich (2002) “(1) deˑs' (n)”, in Vergleichendes Wörterbuch der Jenissej-Sprachen, Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, →ISBN, page 187
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