Reconstruction:Proto-Yeniseian/qowč

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

  • *qɨte, *χɨte (per Werner 2002)
  • *ɢujči (per Fortescue-Vajda 2022)
  • *ɢowč-ja (per Vajda 2024)

Etymology

Compared to Proto-Na-Dene *ɢuǰ (“wolf”); Eyak ɢuˑǰih, ɢóˑtsih (“wolf”) and Tlingit g̱ooch (ɢùːǰ, “wolf”).

Noun

*qowč (plural *qowč-ja-n)

  1. wolf

Descendants

  • Ketic:
    • Imbak Ket: xuːt (Eed-Šeš dialect)
    • Imbak Ket: kxɨɨte, xɨɨta
      • Ket: ӄыт (qɨ̄ˑt), ӄыти (qɨ̄ˑti)
    • Ostyak Yug: χɨɨta
      • Yug: хыт (xɨ̄t)
  • Arinic:
    • Arin: kot, qut, kuːt
  • Pumpokolic:
    • Pumpokol: xótu

Further reading

  • Fortescue, Michael, Vajda, Edward (2022) “*ɢujči”, in Mid-Holocene Language Connections between Asia and North America (Brill's Studies in the Indigenous Languages of the Americas; 17)‎[1], Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 373
  • Vajda, Edward, Werner, Heinrich (2022) “*qɯtʰe/*qɤtʰe”, in Comparative-Historical Yeniseian Dictionary (Languages of the World/Dictionaries; 79, 80), Muenchen: LINCOM GmbH, →ISBN, page 753
  • Vajda, Edward (2024) “*qowč-ja/*qowč-ja-n”, 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 422
  • Werner, Heinrich (2002) Vergleichendes Wörterbuch der Jenissej-Sprachen, Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, →ISBN, page 155
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