Reconstruction:Proto-Inuit/nukaq
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This Proto-Inuit 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-Inuit
Etymology
Inherited from Proto-Eskimo *nukaʀ.
Noun
*nukaq
Derived terms
Descendants
- North Alaskan Inupiatun: nugaq
- Northwest Alaskan Inupiatun: nukaq, nuka
- Inuvialuktun: nukaq
- Inuinnaqtun: nukaq
- Inuktitut: ᓄᑲᖅ (nokaq), nukaq
- Inuktun: nukaq
- Greenlandic: nukaq, nukag (“to be a spoiled child”)
- Tunumiisut: nukaq
References
- Fortescue, Michael, Jacobson, Steven, Kaplan, Lawrence (2010) Comparative Eskimo Dictionary with Aleut Cognates, 2nd edition, Fairbanks: Alaska Native Language Center: University of Alaska Fairbanks, →ISBN, page 260