Reconstruction:Proto-Yeniseian/iwpatɬ

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

  • *ɨpʰəl (per Werner 2002)
  • *ɯpʰʌl (per Vajda-Werner 2022)

Etymology

Uncertain, perhaps borrowed from Evenki хула (hula, “aspen tree”), from Proto-Tungusic *pula (“red”), though this is not featured in Khabtagaeva (2019).[1]

Noun

*iwpatɬ (plural *iwpatɬ-Vŋ)

  1. (botany) aspen tree

Descendants

  • Ketic:
    • Ket: ыль (ɨ̄lʲ), ыыль (ɨ́ɨ̀lʲ)
    • Yug: ыфыл (ɨfɨl)
  • Kottic:
    • Kott: îpal

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 390

Further reading

  • Vajda, Edward, Werner, Heinrich (2022) “*ɯpʰʌl”, in Comparative-Historical Yeniseian Dictionary (Languages of the World/Dictionaries; 79, 80), volume 2, Muenchen: LINCOM GmbH, →ISBN, page 1077
  • Vajda, Edward (2024) “*iwpatɬ”, 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 391
  • Werner, Heinrich (2002) “ɨˑl'ɔ (II)”, in Vergleichendes Wörterbuch der Jenissej-Sprachen, volume 2, Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, →ISBN, page 434
This article is issued from Wiktionary. The text is available under Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 unless otherwise noted. Additional terms may apply for the media files.