Reconstruction:Proto-Inuit/ǝɣlu

This Proto-Inuit 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-Inuit edit

Etymology edit

From Proto-Eskimo *ǝŋlu.

Noun edit

*ǝɣlu

house

Descendants edit

Inupiaq: iglu
Inuktitut: ᐃᒡᓗ (iclo, “house, habitation”)
- → English: igloo, iglu
  - → Italian: iglù
  - → Thai: อิกลู (ìk-luu)
- Inuvialuktun: iglu
  - Inuinnaqtun: iglu
- Eastern Canadian Inuktitut: ᐃᓪᓗ, illu
  - Qikiqtaaluk nigiani: ᐃᓪᓗ (illo)
  - Nunavimmiutitut: illu
  - Nunatsiavummiut: illuk
- Inuktun: iglu
Greenlandic: illu (“house”)
- → Danish: iglo (“igloo”)
Tunumiisut: ittiq

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 123