Reconstruction:Proto-Eskimo/aci

This Proto-Eskimo 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-Eskimo

A user suggests that this Proto-Eskimo reconstruction entry be cleaned up, giving the reason: “CED has two entries under *aci, only one is related to the meaning listed below but it is a Proto-Yupik entry, not a Proto-Eskimo entry. The Inuit descendants are instead all listed under the PE entry *at(ə)-. The other *aci entry also isn't PE (instead it is Proto-Inuit) and also has a listed definition of "somewhere or something remote or vague" that clearly doesn't match this entry.”

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Noun

*aci

area below, downward

Descendants

Proto-Yupik: *aci
- Yup'ik: aci (“bed, space underneath”)
Proto-Inuit: *aci, *at-
- Inupiaq: ati (“area below”), ataani (“below, underneath”)
- Inuinnaqtun: anmun (“downward, lower area”), anmut
- Greenlandic: ati (“lower part”), ataani (“under it”), ataaniippoq (“be below, under”)

References

Fortescue, Michael; Jacobson, Steven; Kaplan, Lawrence (2010). Comparative Eskimo Dictionary with Aleut Cognates. Fairbanks: Alaska Native Language Center.
Starostin, George (ed.) 2011-2019. The Global Lexicostatistical Database. Moscow: Higher School of Economics, & Santa Fe: Santa Fe Institute. Available online at http://starling.rinet.ru/new100/