Reconstruction:Proto-Yeniseian/ponke

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

  • *pʰəˀŋ (per Werner 2002)
  • *pʰʌˀŋ (per Vajda-Werner 2022)
  • *poŋ (per Fortescue-Vajda 2022)

Etymology

Borrowed from Proto-Samoyedic *poŋka (catching net), which is from Proto-Uralic *poŋe- (to catch).[1]

Noun

*ponke (plural *ponke-ŋ)

  1. (fishing) net, fishing net

Descendants

  • Ketic:
    • Imbak Ket: höögn
    • Ostyak Yug: fanke (per Kostrov)
      • Yug: фъʼӈ (fʌˀŋ)
  • Kottic:
    • Kott: fuŋ, pun
  • Arinic:

References

  1. ^ Janhunen, Juha (2021) Two Samoyedic words in Yakut[1], page 164 of 159-166

Further reading

  • Fortescue, Michael, Vajda, Edward (2022) “PY *o”, in Mid-Holocene Language Connections between Asia and North America (Brill's Studies in the Indigenous Languages of the Americas; 17)‎[2], Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 268
  • Vajda, Edward, Werner, Heinrich (2022) “*pʰʌˀŋ”, in Comparative-Historical Yeniseian Dictionary (Languages of the World/Dictionaries; 79, 80), volume 1, Muenchen: LINCOM GmbH, →ISBN, page 596
  • Vajda, Edward (2024) “*ponke”, in The Languages and Linguistics of Northern Asia: Language Families (The World of Linguistics [WOL]; 10.1)‎[3], volume 1, Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter Mouton, →DOI, →ISBN, page 416
  • 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 476
  • Werner, Heinrich (2002) “²hʌˀŋ”, in Vergleichendes Wörterbuch der Jenissej-Sprachen, volume 1, Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, →ISBN, page 341
  • Werner, Heinrich (2005) “net”, in Die Jenissej-Sprachen des 18. Jahrhunderts, Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, →ISBN, page 311