Reconstruction:Proto-Eskimo/accaɣ

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

Etymology

Possibly related to *acuʀaʀ (“aunt by marriage”), if that term is not from *acu- (“to have sex with a woman that is not one's wife”).

Noun

*accaɣ

1. paternal aunt

Descendants

• Proto-Yupik: *acaɣ
  • Alutiiq: aca, acak, acaaq
  • Yup'ik: acak
  • Naukanski: asik
  • Central Siberian Yupik: asak
  • Sirenik: asəx
• Proto-Inuit: *atcaɣ
  • Inupiaq:
    • Northwest Alaskan Inupiatun: assak
    • North Alaskan Inupiatun: atchak
  • Inuktitut: ᐊᑦᓴ (atsa), ᐊᑦᓴᒃ (atsak)
    • Inuvialuktun: atsak
      • Inuinnaqtun: attak
    • Eastern Canadian Inuktitut: ᐊᑦᓴ, ᐊᑦᓴᒃ
  • Greenlandic: atsa, atsak
  • Tunumiisut: atsaaq

Further reading

• 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