Reconstruction:Proto-Yeniseian/cajs
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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
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Has been compared to Proto-Na-Dene *caj (“stone”). The final */s/ in Yeniseian is a singulative suffix that disappears in the plural.
Noun
[edit]*cajs[1]
Descendants
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ 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”