Reconstruction:Proto-Eskimo/nayyiʀaʀ
Proto-Eskimo edit
Etymology edit
From *nayyiʀ (“ringed seal”) + *ʀaʀ (“young, small”, postbase).
Noun edit
*nayyiʀaʀ
- young (ringed) seal
Descendants edit
- Proto-Yupik: *nayyiʀaʀ
- Proto-Inuit: *natciʀaq
- ⇒ Northwest Alaskan Inupiatun: nassiaġzruk
- ⇒ North Alaskan Inupiatun: natchiaġruk (“small seal”)
- Inuvialuktun:
- Inuinnaqtun: nattiaq
- Inuktitut: ᓇᑦᓯᐊᖅ (natsiaq), natsiaq
- Inuktun: natsiaq
- Greenlandic: natsiaq