Reconstruction:Proto-Yeniseian/xuɬ

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

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Noun

*xuɬ

1. water

Descendants

• Northern Yeniseian:
  • Ket: уль (ūˑl)
  • Yug: ур (ūr)
• Southern Yeniseian:
  • Arin: kul
  • Assan: ul
  • Kott: ul, ûl
  • Pumpokol: ul

References

• Fortescue, M., Vajda, E. (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 257
• Vajda, E. (2024) “*xuɬ”, in The Languages and Linguistics of Northern Asia: Language Families (The World of Linguistics [WOL]; 10.1)‎^[2], volume 1, Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter Mouton, →DOI, →ISBN, pages 391, 404