Reconstruction:Proto-Eskimo/nukaʀ

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

Noun

*nukaʀ

1. younger sibling (of the same sex)

Derived terms

• *nukaʀaʀ (“second wife”)

Descendants

• Proto-Yupik: *nukaʀ
  • Yup'ik: nukaq
  • Naukanski: nukaq
  • Sirenik: nuka, nukəχ (“sister”)
• Proto-Inuit: *nukaq
  • North Alaskan Inupiatun: nugaq
  • Northwest Alaskan Inupiatun: nukaq, nuka
  • Inuvialuktun: nukaq
    • Inuinnaqtun: nukaq
  • Inuktitut: ᓄᑲᖅ (nokaq), nukaq
  • Inuktun: nukaq
  • Greenlandic: nukaq, nukag (“to be a spoiled child”)
  • Tunumiisut: nukaq

References

• 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