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Proto-Yeniseian
Etymology
Has been compared to Proto-Na-Dene *ɢuǰ (“wolf”).
Noun
*qowčja
- wolf
Descendants
- Northern Yeniseian:
- Southern Yeniseian:
References
- Vajda, E. (2024) 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 422: “*qowč-ja”
Further reading
- Fortescue, M., Vajda, E. (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, page 373: “*ɢujči”