Reconstruction:Proto-Eskimo/qipuqqaʀ

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

*qipuqqaʀ

1. humpback whale

Descendants

• Proto-Yupik: *qipuqaʀ
  • Naukanski: qipuqaq
  • Central Siberian Yupik:
    • Chaplino: qipuqaq
  • Sirenik: qipuqaχ
• Proto-Inuit: *qipuqqaq
  • Northwest Alaskan Inupiatun: qivuqaq (“rorqual”)
  • Inuktitut:
    • Baffin: ᕿᐳᖅᖃᖅ (qipoqqaq), qipuqqaq (“fin whale”)
  • Greenlandic: qipoqqaq
  • Tunumiisut: qiporaq
• → Alutor: ӄипуӄ
• → Chukchi: ӄипуӄ

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, page 336
• Fortescue, Michael (2005) Comparative Chukotko-Kamchatkan dictionary (Trends in Linguistic Documentation; 23), Berlin – New York: de Gruyter, →ISBN, page 235.