Reconstruction:Proto-Inuit/nukaqliq
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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
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From *nukaq + *qliq (postbase).
Noun
[edit]*nukaqliq
- youngest (of a family)
Descendants
[edit]- Northwest Alaskan Inupiatun: nugaqłiq
- North Alaskan Inupiatun: nukaqłiq
- Inuvialuktun: nukaqłiq
- Inuktitut: ᓄᑲᕐᓯᖅ (nokarsiq), nukarsiq
- Greenlandic: nukarleq
References
[edit]- 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