Reconstruction:Proto-Yeniseian/pijk

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.
This Proto-Yeniseian entry contains original research. The reconstruction in this entry is based on published research, but the specific form presented here is not found in prior works.

Proto-Yeniseian

Alternative reconstructions

  • *pʰigə (per Werner 2002)
  • *pixe (per Starostin 1994-2005)[1]
  • *pʰīˑgʌ (per Vajda-Werner 2022)
  • *pojka (per Vajda 2024)
  • *pi-? (per Cologne group. Pattern: h.1-X)

Etymology

Borrowed from Proto-Uralic *pojka (boy, man), via a Samoyedic intermediate.

Noun

*pijk (plural *pijk-ja-n)

  1. (sociology) man, male human being
    Coordinate term: *ɢejm (woman)

Descendants

  • Ketic:
    • Ket: хик (hīˑk), хиг (hīˑɣ, singular), хоʼн (hɔˀŋ), хикен (hìkɛ́n, plural) (Southern dialects)[2]
    • Ket: хигә (hiɣə), хийгә (hiʲɣə, singular) (Central and Northern dialects)[3]
    • Yug: фик (fīk, singular), фигин (fígɨn, plural)
  • Kottic:
    • Kott: (singular) (C.), fan (plural) (C.)
      • Kott: pijal (man, literally man-child) (H.)
  • Arinic:
    • ? Arin: pa-nalikip (man) (H.)[4][5][6]

See also

  • Proto-Yeniseian entry guidelines § Bibliography

References

  1. ^ https://starlingdb.org/cgi-bin/response.cgi?single=1&basename=%2fDATA%2fYENISEY%2fYENET&text_number=475&root=config
  2. ^ Kotorova, Elizaveta; Nefedov, Andrey (2015), Большой словарь кетского языка, Münich: LINCOM, →ISBN, page 183
  3. ^ Hill, Eugen; Fries, Simon; Korobzow, Natalie; Günther, Laura; Svenja, Bonmann (2024), “Towards a New Reconstruction of the Proto-Yeniseian Sound System. Part II: Word-Final Consonants”, in International Journal of Eurasian Linguistics[1], number 6, Brill, →DOI, →ISSN, page 223 of 216-293
  4. ^ Misrecording of *pa-n-alo-kit, literally, man-of-person.
  5. ^ Werner, Heinrich (2005), “panakalib [Das arinische]”, in Die Jenissej-Sprachen des 18. Jahrhunderts, Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, →ISBN, page 162
  6. ^ Vajda, Edward; Werner, Heinrich (2022), “panalikip”, in Comparative-Historical Yeniseian Dictionary (Languages of the World/Dictionaries; 79, 80), volume 1, Muenchen: LINCOM GmbH, →ISBN, page 530

Further reading

  • Bonmann, Svenja; Fries, Simon; Korobzow, Natalie; Günther, Laura; Hill, Eugen (2023), “'man'”, in “Towards a New Reconstruction of the Proto-Yeniseian Sound System. Part I: Word-Initial Consonants”, in International Journal of Eurasian Linguistics[2], number 5, Brill, →DOI, →ISSN, page 63 of 39-82
  • Vajda, Edward; Werner, Heinrich (2022), “*pʰīˑgʌ”, in Comparative-Historical Yeniseian Dictionary (Languages of the World/Dictionaries; 79, 80), volume 1, Muenchen: LINCOM GmbH, →ISBN, page 561
  • Vajda, Edward (2024), 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 406
  • Werner, Heinrich (2002), “1hiˑγ”, in Vergleichendes Wörterbuch der Jenissej-Sprachen, volume 1, Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, →ISBN, page 320
  • Werner, Heinrich (2005), “man”, in Die Jenissej-Sprachen des 18. Jahrhunderts, Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, →ISBN, page 308