Reconstruction:Proto-Yeniseian/dejç

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

Composed of *dej (“eye”) +‎ *-ç (singulative suffix).

Noun

*dej-ç (plural *dej-Vŋ)

1. (anatomy) eye

Alternative reconstructions

• *de-s (per Werner 2002)
• *tej, *dej, *dejs (per Fortescue-Vajda 2022)
• *deʧ, *dec (per Cologne group 2023 & 2024. Pattern: d.1-s.1)

Descendants

• Ketic:
  • Imbak Ket: dées (dées) (M., W., Kl., VW.), deːs (deːs) (Kl.), des' (des') (Ad.)
    • Ket: десь (dēˑsʲ)
      • Ket: -дис (dis, singulative suffix)
  • Ostyak Yug: deːs (deːs) (M.)
    • Yug: дес (dēˑs)
• Kottic:
  • Assan: teš (M., W., Kl., VW.), tiš (Kl.)
  • Kott: têš (M., W.), tes (H.), tiš (C.; singular), téčagan (M., W., Kl.), tieŋ (VW.; plural)
    • ⇒ Kott: tes-pun (“blind”, literally “eye-without”) (H.)
• Arinic:
  • Arin: tieŋ (M., W., Kl., VW.), tiːeŋ (Str.; plural)
  • ⇒ Arin: tenkt (“eye, eyes^?”) (H.)
  • ⇒ Arin: a-tem-manča (“blind”, literally “eyes-without”) (H.)
• Pumpokolic:
  • Pumpokol: dat (M., W., VW., Kl.)
  • ⇒? Pumpokol: dɨxu (“ball”) (VW.)

See also

• Proto-Yeniseian entry guidelines § Bibliography

Further reading

• Bonmann, Svenja; Fries, Simon; Korobzow, Natalie; Günther, Laura; Hill, Eugen (2023), “Towards a New Reconstruction of the Proto-Yeniseian Sound System. Part I: Word-Initial Consonants”, in International Journal of Eurasian Linguistics‎^[1], number 5, Brill, →DOI, →ISSN, page 51 of 39-82
• Hill, Eugen; Fries, Simon; Korobzow, Natalie; Günther, Laura; Svenja, Bonmann (2024), “Towards a New Reconstruction of the Proto-Yeniseian Sound System. Part II: Word-Final Consonants”, in International Journal of Eurasian Linguistics‎^[2], number 6, Brill, →DOI, →ISSN, page 251 of 216-293
• Fortescue, Michael; Vajda, Edward (2022), “*13.) ~*tej”, in Mid-Holocene Language Connections between Asia and North America (Brill's Studies in the Indigenous Languages of the Americas; 17)‎^[3], Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 332
• Vajda, Edward; Werner, Heinrich (2022), “*des”, in Comparative-Historical Yeniseian Dictionary (Languages of the World/Dictionaries; 79, 80), volume 1, Muenchen: LINCOM GmbH, →ISBN, page 202
• Vajda, Edward (2024), “*dej-ç”, in The Languages and Linguistics of Northern Asia: Language Families (The World of Linguistics [WOL]; 10.1)‎^[4], volume 1, Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter Mouton, →DOI, →ISBN, page 413
• Werner, Heinrich (2002), “(1) deˑs' (n)”, in Vergleichendes Wörterbuch der Jenissej-Sprachen, volume 1, Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, →ISBN, page 187