Reconstruction:Proto-Eskimo/caqə-

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

Compare Proto-Eskimo *caqu- (“to veer to the side”).

Verb edit

*caqə-

to turn
to move

Derived terms edit

*caqələkitaʀ (“butterfly”)
*caqəlŋataq (“butterfly”)
*caqviɣ (“whale tail (fin)”)

Descendants edit

Proto-Yupik: *caqi-
- Alutiiq: caʀi (“to tilt, swerve, weave”)
- Yup'ik: caqir
- Naukanski: saqiɣ (“to push aside”)
Proto-Inuit: *caqi-
- Northwest Alaskan Inupiatun: saġit (“to put aside”)
  - Qawiaraq: saġik
- North Alaskan Inupiatun: saqit (“to push, to move out of the way”)
- Inuvialuktun:
  - Siglit: saqi
- Inuktitut: ᓴᕿ (saqi), saqi
- Inuktun: haqi
- Greenlandic: saqi
- Tunumiisut: tsari

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, page 76