Reconstruction:Proto-Yeniseian/cajs

This Proto-Yeniseian 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-Yeniseian

Etymology

Has been compared to Proto-Na-Dene *caj (“stone”). The final */s/ in Yeniseian is a singulative suffix that disappears in the plural.

Noun

*cajs^[1]

stone

Descendants

Arin: kes
Ketic:
- Ket: ты’сь
- Yug: чы’сь
Kottic:
- Assan: šiš
- Kott: šiš
Pumpokol: kit

References

^ Fortescue, Michael D., Vajda, Edward J. (2022) Mid-Holocene Language Connections between Asia and North America (Brill's Studies in the Indigenous Languages of the Americas; 17)‎^[1], Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 353: “*caj-s”

[1] Fortescue, Michael D., Vajda, Edward J. (2022) Mid-Holocene Language Connections between Asia and North America (Brill's Studies in the Indigenous Languages of the Americas; 17)‎^[1], Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 353: “*caj-s”

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