Reconstruction:Proto-Eskimo/ila

This Proto-Eskimo 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-Eskimo edit

Etymology edit

Of Proto-Eskimo-Aleut origin. Compare Aleut ilax̂ (“part (of something)”).

Noun edit

*ila

part

Related terms edit

*ila- (“to add”) (verbal form)

Descendants edit

Proto-Yupik: *ila
- Alutiiq: ila
- Yup'ik: ila
- Naukanski: ila
- Central Siberian Yupik: ila
- Sirenik: ila
Proto-Inuit: *ila
- Inupiaq:
  - Northwest Alaskan Inupiatun: ila
  - North Alaskan Inupiatun: iḷa
- Inuvialuktun: ila
  - Inuinnaqtun: ilak
- Inuktitut: ᐃᓚ (ila), ila
- Inuktun: ila
- Greenlandic: ila
- Tunumiisut: ila

References edit

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