Reconstruction:Proto-Eskimo/aləqa(ʀ)

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

Etymology

Fortescue et al. suggest a possible link with *aləʀ (“other (of a pair)”).

Noun

*aləqa(ʀ)

1. older sister (of a male)

Descendants

• Proto-Yupik: *alǝqaʀ
  • Alutiiq: alqaq
    • Perryville: ałqaq
  • Yup'ik: ałqaq
    • Hooper Bay-Chevak: alqaq
    • Norton Sound Ulaniq: ałǝqaq
• Proto-Inuit: *alǝqa(q)
  • Inupiaq:
    • North Alaskan Inupiatun: aliqa, aliqaq
  • Inuktitut:
    • Inuvialuktun:
      • Inuinnaqtun: aliqak, aliqaq
    • Eastern Canadian Inuktitut:
      • Iglulik: ᐊᓕᖄ (aliqaa)
      • North-Baffin-Iglulik: ᐊᓕᖃᓐᓇᖅ (aliqannaq)
    • Inuktun: aleqa
  • Greenlandic: aleqaq
  • Tunumiisut: alara

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/