Reconstruction:Proto-Yeniseian/qogʷja

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

*χogdi (per Werner 2002 and Starostin 2005)
*qogdʌ (for Proto-Ketic, per Vajda-Werner 2022)

Etymology

Composed of *qogʷ (“ice”) +‎ *-ja (nominalizer suffix), literally “ice-season”.

Noun

*qogʷja (no plural)

(time) autumn, fall

Descendants

Ketic:
- Imbak Ket: kókde
  - Ket: ӄогдь (qɔ́gdʲ, qɔgdʲ), ӄогди (qɔ́gdi)
  - ⇒ Ket: ӄогдесь (qɔ́gdesʲ) (cf. есь (ēsʲ, “sky, god, weather”))
- Yug: хогди (χɔ́gdi)
- ⇒ Yug: хогдес (χɔ́gdes) (cf. Ket ӄогдесь (qɔ́gdesʲ))

Proto-Ketic: *qogdʌpʰaq (action nominal)
- ⇒ Ket: ӄогдаӄ (qɔgdaq, “to spend the autumn”)
- ⇒ Yug: хогдифах (χɔ́gdifaχ), хогдифынах (χɔ́gdifɨnaχ, “to spend the autumn, to have been spending the autumn”)

Kottic:
- Kott: gorɨ, hôri
Arinic:
- >? Arin: kute

Vajda, Edward, Werner, Heinrich (2022) “*qogdʌ”, in Comparative-Historical Yeniseian Dictionary (Languages of the World/Dictionaries; 79, 80), Muenchen: LINCOM GmbH, →ISBN, page 677
Vajda, Edward (2024) “Footnote 14”, in The Languages and Linguistics of Northern Asia: Language Families (The World of Linguistics [WOL]; 10.1)‎^[1], volume 1, Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter Mouton, →DOI, →ISBN, page 387
Werner, Heinrich (2002) “qɔ́gdi/qɔ́gde/qɔgd”, in Vergleichendes Wörterbuch der Jenissej-Sprachen, Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, →ISBN, page 94
Werner, Heinrich (2005) “autumn”, in Die Jenissej-Sprachen des 18. Jahrhunderts, Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, →ISBN, page 283