Reconstruction:Proto-Chukotko-Kamchatkan/ðəlɣə
Proto-Chukotko-Kamchatkan
editEtymology
editLikely related with the verbal root Proto-Chukotko-Kamchatkan *ðəlŋə- (“to count”), whence Chukchi рылгы (rəlɣə) and Itelmen ԓнес (ɬnes). This root also appears as the first element of the compound Proto-Chukotko-Kamchatkan *ðəlɣəlelŋən (“glove”).
In Chukchi, the stem рылгы- (rəlɣə-) alternates with рычгы- (rəčɣə-) especially in compounds. The Itelmen form is perhaps reduplicated (Fortescue, 2005: 68).
Noun
edit*ðəlɣə
Descendants
edit- Chukotkan
- Kamchatkan
- Itelmen: луфԓич (luɸɬič)
References
edit- Fortescue, Michael (2005) Comparative Chukotko-Kamchatkan dictionary (Trends in Linguistic Documentation; 23), Berlin – New York: de Gruyter, →ISBN.