Reconstruction:Proto-Chukotko-Kamchatkan/wala
Proto-Chukotko-Kamchatkan
editEtymology
editFortescue (1998: 137) compares this root with Proto-Eskimo-Aleut *ulu(ʀ) (“semi-lunar knife”).
Noun
edit*wala
Descendants
edit- Chukotkan:
References
edit- Fortescue, Michael (2005) Comparative Chukotko-Kamchatkan dictionary (Trends in Linguistic Documentation; 23), Berlin – New York: de Gruyter, →ISBN.
- Fortescue, Michael (1998) Language Relations across Bering Strait: Reappraising the Archeological and Linguistic Evidence, Bloomsbury Publishing, →ISBN