Reconstruction:Proto-Eskimo/nayaɣ

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

Noun

*nayaɣ

1. younger sister (of a man)

Descendants

• Proto-Yupik: *nayaɣ
  • Alutiiq: nayagak, nayaaq
  • Yup'ik: nassak
    • Hooper Bay-Chevak: nayyak (“unmarried girl, virgin”), nayagaq (“younger sister”)
  • Naukanski: наяк (nayak), наягак (nayaɣaq)
  • Central Siberian Yupik: наяк, nayak
• Proto-Inuit: *nayaɣ
  • Inupiaq: nayak
  • Inuvialuktun: nayak
  • Inuktitut: ᓇᔭᒃ (nayak), nayak
  • Inuktun: najak
  • Greenlandic: najak
  • Tunumiisut: najak

References

• Fortescue, Michael, Jacobson, Steven, Kaplan, Lawrence (2010) Comparative Eskimo Dictionary with Aleut Cognates, 2nd edition, Fairbanks: Alaska Native Language Center: University of Alaska Fairbanks, →ISBN