Reconstruction:Proto-Inuit/nukaq

This Proto-Inuit 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-Inuit

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Eskimo *nukaʀ.

Noun

*nukaq

1. younger same-sex sibling

Derived terms

• *nukaqliq
• *nukatuɣaq
• *nukaunʀuq
• *nukavluq
• *nukaʀaq
• *nukaʀiit

 

Descendants

• North Alaskan Inupiatun: nugaq
• Northwest Alaskan Inupiatun: nukaq, nuka
• Inuvialuktun: nukaq
  • Inuinnaqtun: nukaq
• Inuktitut: ᓄᑲᖅ (nokaq), nukaq
• Inuktun: nukaq
• Greenlandic: nukaq, nukag (“to be a spoiled child”)
• Tunumiisut: nukaq

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 260