Reconstruction:Proto-Eskimo/nuliʀ(aʀ)

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

Seemingly from the verbal root *nul(l)iʀ- (“to copulate with”) +‎ *aʀ (“thing resembling something”, post-base).

Noun

*nuliʀ(aʀ)

1. wife

Derived terms

• *nuliʀ(aʀ)iʀ- (“to lose one's wife”)

Descendants

• Proto-Yupik: *nuliʀaʀ
  • Alutiiq: nulir
  • Yup'ik: nuliaq, nulirr
  • Naukanski: нуле̄ӄ (nuliaq)
  • Central Siberian Yupik: nuliiq, nuliχ
  • Sirenik: нуци́ӽ (nucíχ)
• Proto-Inuit: *nuliaq
  • Inupiaq: nuliaq
  • Inuvialuktun: nuliaq
  • Inuktitut: ᓄᓕᐊᖅ (noliaq), nuliaq
  • Inuktun: nuliaq
  • Greenlandic: nuliaq
  • Tunumiisut: nuliaq

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