Reconstruction:Proto-Yukaghir/qoroj
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This Proto-Yukaghir 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-Yukaghir edit
Etymology edit
Supposedly a wanderword,[1][2][3] ultimately from Proto-Uralic *kojera (“male animal”). Fortescue (2005) proposes the following route:
Proto-Uralic > Proto-Samoyedic *korå (“male reindeer”) > Proto-Tungusic *oran (“reindeer”), whence borrowed into both Proto-Yukaghir and Proto-Chukotko-Kamchatkan *qora (“reindeer”), whence further borrowed into Proto-Yupik (compare Central Siberian Yupik ӄуйӈик (qujŋik, “reindeer”)).[1]
Ante Aikio (2014) proposes a direct borrowing from Proto-Samoyedic, and in turn links the Proto-Uralic term to *köj (“boy”).[2]
Piispanen (2018) is of the opinion that the Yukaghir term is a borrowing from either Proto-Chukotko-Kamchatkan or, less probably, directly from Chukchi ӄораӈы (qoraŋə) into Southern Yukaghir.[3]
The basis for the reconstruction relies entirely on the assumption that the term is borrowed from another, neighbouring, proto-language. If however, as Piispanen (2018) suggests, the term was a direct borrowing into Southern Yukaghir, the Proto-Yukaghir term probably did not exist.
Noun edit
*qoroj[4]
Descendants edit
References edit
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Fortescue, Michael (2005) Comparative Chukotko-Kamchatkan dictionary (Trends in Linguistic Documentation; 23), Berlin – New York: de Gruyter, →ISBN, page 238.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Ante Aikio (2014) “The Uralic-Yukaghir lexical correspondences: genetic inheritance, language contact or chance resemblance?”, in Finnisch-Ugrische Forschungen, volume 62
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 Peter S. Piispanen (2018) “Additional Turkic and Tungusic borrowings into Yukaghir”, in Turkic Languages, volume 22
- ^ Nikolaeva, Irina (2006) A Historical Dictionary of Yukaghir (Trends in Linguistics Documentation; 25), Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter, →ISBN, page 388