Reconstruction:Proto-Yeniseian/ab

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

  • *ŋôp (for Proto-Kottic), *obə (per Werner 2002)
  • *ʔob (per Starostin 1994-2005)[1]
  • *op, *obʌ (per Vajda-Werner 2022)
  • *ōˑb, *ob (per Fortescue-Vajda 2022)
  • *ŋʷab (for Pre-Proto-Yeniseian[2]), *ab-e (per Vajda 2024)
  • *ob, *op (per Cologne group 2024. Pattern: X-p.1)

Reconstruction notes

Ostyak Yug and Arin terms feature *-e (kinship-noun suffix), which is also mirrored in *am (“mother”).

Kott terms recorded by M. A. Castrén (1849) feature a tilde before the entry, implying nasalization, which leads Werner (2002), and following him, Vajda-Werner (2022) and Vajda (2024) to reconstruct a lost nasal onset (rounded nasal, in the case of the latter,) for this root, also seen in the coordinate term, *am (“mother”).

Etymology

Most likely a lallwort, though also quite possibly analyzable as *a +‎ *-b (masculine noun class marker).

Noun

*ab (plural *ab-Vŋ)

  1. (sociology) father
    Coordinate term: *am (“mother”)
Derived terms
  • *ɢej-ab (“grandfather”)

Descendants

  • Ketic:
    • Imbak Ket: obo (Kl., F., JO.; listed as 'Jenissej-Ostjakisch')
    • Imbak Ket: ob (M., W., Kl., VW.), op (Ad.), obo (Kl., F., JO.)
    • Ostyak Yug: óbo (M.)
  • Kottic:
    • Assan: op (M., W., Kl., VW., F.), öb (Kl.)
    • Kott: op (F.; Kojbal dialect)
    • Kott: op (M., W., Kl., VW.), ob (H.), ôb, ôp (C.)
  • Arinic:
    • Arin: ajap (H.)
    • ⇒ Arin: ɨpä (Str.)
    • ⇒ Arin: b'-ap (“my father”) (M., W., Kl., VW., F.)
  • Pumpokolic:
    • Pumpokol: ab (M., W., VW., Kl.)

See also

  • Proto-Yeniseian entry guidelines § Bibliography

References

  1. ^ https://starlingdb.org/cgi-bin/response.cgi?single=1&basename=%2fDATA%2fYENISEY%2fYENET&text_number=127&root=config
  2. ^ Vajda, Edward (2024), 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 413

Further reading

  • Hill, Eugen; Fries, Simon; Korobzow, Natalie; Günther, Laura; Svenja, Bonmann (2024), “'father'e”, in “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 227 of 216-293
  • Fortescue, Michael; Vajda, Edward (2022), 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 407
  • Vajda, Edward; Werner, Heinrich (2022), “*op (2)/*ob(ʌ)”, in Comparative-Historical Yeniseian Dictionary (Languages of the World/Dictionaries; 79, 80), volume 1, Muenchen: LINCOM GmbH, →ISBN, page 525
  • Vajda, Edward (2024), “*-ab-e”, in 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 412
  • Werner, Heinrich (2002), “(1) oˑp”, in Vergleichendes Wörterbuch der Jenissej-Sprachen, volume 2, Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, →ISBN, page 50
  • Werner, Heinrich (2005), “father”, in Die Jenissej-Sprachen des 18. Jahrhunderts, Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, →ISBN, page 295
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