Reconstruction:Proto-Yeniseian/pojka

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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

  • *pʰige (per Werner 2002)
  • *pixe (per Starostin 1994-2005)
  • *pʰīˑgʌ (per Vajda-Werner 2022)
  • *pijC- (per Cologne group 2023. Pattern: h.1-j.1?-?)

Etymology

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

Noun

*pojka (plural *pojka-ŋ)

  1. (sociology) male person
    Coordinate term: *pange (female person)

Descendants

  • Ketic:
    • Ket: хиг (hīɣ), хиге (hīɣɛ, man)
    • Yug: фик (fīk, man)
  • Kottic:
    • Kott: (fiː, man, male person)
      • Kott: fîhit (fiːhit, man, literally male-man)
      • Kott: fîpopêš (fiːpopeːš, brother)
      • Kott: pijal (man, literally male-child)

Further reading

  • Bonmann, Svenja, Fries, Simon, Korobzow, Natalie, Günther, Laura, Hill, Eugen (2023) “Towards a New Reconstruction of the Proto-Yeniseian Sound System. Part I: Word-Initial Consonants”, in International Journal of Eurasian Linguistics, number 5, Brill, →DOI, →ISSN, page 63 of 39-82
  • Hill, Eugen, Fries, Simon, Korobzow, Natalie, Günther, Laura, Svenja, Bonmann (2024) “Coda-j.1”, in “Towards a New Reconstruction of the Proto-Yeniseian Sound System. Part II: Word-Final Consonants”, in International Journal of Eurasian Linguistics, number 6, Brill, →DOI, →ISSN, page 279 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)‎, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN
  • Vajda, Edward, Werner, Heinrich (2022) “*pʰīˑgʌ”, in Comparative-Historical Yeniseian Dictionary (Languages of the World/Dictionaries; 79, 80), Muenchen: LINCOM GmbH, →ISBN, page 561
  • Vajda, Edward (2024) “*pojka”, in The Languages and Linguistics of Northern Asia: Language Families (The World of Linguistics ; 10.1)‎, volume 1, Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter Mouton, →DOI, →ISBN, page 406
  • Werner, Heinrich (2002) “¹hiˑγ”, in Vergleichendes Wörterbuch der Jenissej-Sprachen, Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, →ISBN, page 320