Reconstruction:Proto-Chukotko-Kamchatkan/milutæ

This Proto-Chukotko-Kamchatkan 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-Chukotko-Kamchatkan

Etymology

In the controversial Nostratic hypothesis, this term is compared with Proto-Mongolic *möndele, Proto-Tungusic *mundukān. Whence also Mongolian молтогчин (moltogčin, “rabbit”) and Evenki мундука̄н (mundukān, “hare”).

Noun

*milutæ

1. hare, rabbit

Descendants

• Chukotkan
  • Chukchi: мэлоталгын (melotalɣən)
  • Koryak: миљутэ (milʲute)
  • Kerek: миљӯтаӈа (milʲūtaŋa)
  • Alutor: милют (milʲut), мильут (milʲut)
• Kamchatkan
  • Itelmen: мињԓ (miňɬ), мињԓай (miňɬaj), мињԓʼин (miňɬʔin)

References

• Fortescue, Michael (2005) Comparative Chukotko-Kamchatkan dictionary (Trends in Linguistic Documentation; 23), Berlin – New York: de Gruyter, →ISBN.
• Volodin, Aleksandr P. (1989) Cловарь ительменско-русский и русско-ительменский [Itelmen-Russian and Russian-Itelmen Dictionary], Leningrad: Prosveshenie, →ISBN, page 58.

• Starostin, G., “PEur. *möńdo” in starling database