Reconstruction:Proto-Samoyedic/jojs

This Proto-Samoyedic 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-Samoyedic

Etymology

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Noun

*jojs

1. fat

Descendants

• Nganasan: чуˮ (čuˮ)
• Enets:
  • Forest Enets: дю (dju)
• Nenets:
  • Forest Nenets: дёԓ (djoɬ)
  • Tundra Nenets: юрˮ (jurʔ)
• Selkup:
  • Northern Selkup: чош (ćoš)
  • Southern Selkup:
    • Narym: ӱр (ür), ӧр (ör), чош (ćoš)
    • Chulym: йіор (jüor)

References

• Janhunen, Juha. 1977. Samojedischer Wortschatz: Gemeinsamojedische Etymologien ('Samoyedic Vocabulary: Common Samoyedic Etymologies'). Castreanianumin toimitteita 17. Helsinki: Suomalais-Ugrilainen Seura. →ISBN.