Reconstruction:Proto-Samoyedic/äpå

This Proto-Samoyedic 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-Samoyedic

Alternative reconstructions

(Pre-Nganasan split) *apå
(Enets) *åpå

Etymology

Likely originally a nursery word. Compare Proto-Turkic *apa (“older female relative”).

Noun

*äpå^[1]

older sister

Descendants

Nganasan: ӈаху (ŋaxu)^[2]
Enets:^[3]
- Forest Enets: абаа (abaa)
- Tundra Enets: абаа (abaa)
Nenets:
- Tundra Nenets: нябако (nyabako)^[4]
Proto-Selkup: *āpa^[5]
- Southern Selkup:
  - Narym: абá (abá)^[6]
  - Upper Ob: эаба (eaba)^[7]
>? Kamassian: пхаба (pʰaba)^[8] (possibly, with influence from *pepä (“younger brother, sister”))
>? Mator: ӱхӓ (ühä)^[9] (possibly, with influence from *pepä (“younger brother, sister”))

References

^ Janhunen, Juha. 1977. Samojedischer Wortschatz: Gemeinsamojedische Etymologien ('Samoyedic Vocabulary: Common Samoyedic Etymologies'). Castreanianumin toimitteita 17. Helsinki: Suomalais-Ugrilainen Seura. →ISBN.
^ N. T. Kosterkina, A. C. Momde, T. Y. Zhdanova (2001) Словарь нганасанско-русский и русско-нганасанский, St. Petersburg: Просвещение, →ISBN, page 131
^ Olesya Khanina, Andrey Shluinsky (2023) Forest and Tundra Enets‎^[1], →DOI, →ISBN, page 796
^ N. M. Tereschenko (2005) Словарь ненецко-русский и русско-ненецкий, 3rd edition, Saint Petersburg: Просвещение, →ISBN, page 293
^ T. Janurik (2023) “A protoszölkup nyelvállapot és fejleményei. Elektronikus kézirat.”, in Szamojéd Tudástár‎^[2] (in Hungarian), page 17
^ I. A. Korobeynikova (2020) Родное слово [Native word], Tomsk: Аграф-Пресс; Вайар, →ISBN, page 40 of 240
^ G. Yu. Kostyuchenko (2023) Тюйкуй Йэжиссан – Селькупский словарь для остяков Молчановского района [Tjuykuy Yezhissan – Selkup dictionary for Molchanovo district Selkup people], Molchanovo, page 103 of 109
^ Donner, Kai R. (1944) Kamassisches Wörterbuch nebst Sprachproben und Hauptzügen der Grammatik‎^[3], Helsinki: Suomalais-Ugrilainen Seura, page 50
^ E. Helimski (1997) N. Beáta, editor, Die Matorische Sprache‎^[4] (in German), Szeged: JATE Finnugor Tanszék, →ISBN, page 373

[1] Janhunen, Juha. 1977. Samojedischer Wortschatz: Gemeinsamojedische Etymologien ('Samoyedic Vocabulary: Common Samoyedic Etymologies'). Castreanianumin toimitteita 17. Helsinki: Suomalais-Ugrilainen Seura. →ISBN.

[2] N. T. Kosterkina, A. C. Momde, T. Y. Zhdanova (2001) Словарь нганасанско-русский и русско-нганасанский, St. Petersburg: Просвещение, →ISBN, page 131

[3] Olesya Khanina, Andrey Shluinsky (2023) Forest and Tundra Enets‎^[1], →DOI, →ISBN, page 796

[4] N. M. Tereschenko (2005) Словарь ненецко-русский и русско-ненецкий, 3rd edition, Saint Petersburg: Просвещение, →ISBN, page 293

[5] T. Janurik (2023) “A protoszölkup nyelvállapot és fejleményei. Elektronikus kézirat.”, in Szamojéd Tudástár‎^[2] (in Hungarian), page 17

[6] I. A. Korobeynikova (2020) Родное слово [Native word], Tomsk: Аграф-Пресс; Вайар, →ISBN, page 40 of 240

[7] G. Yu. Kostyuchenko (2023) Тюйкуй Йэжиссан – Селькупский словарь для остяков Молчановского района [Tjuykuy Yezhissan – Selkup dictionary for Molchanovo district Selkup people], Molchanovo, page 103 of 109

[8] Donner, Kai R. (1944) Kamassisches Wörterbuch nebst Sprachproben und Hauptzügen der Grammatik‎^[3], Helsinki: Suomalais-Ugrilainen Seura, page 50

[9] E. Helimski (1997) N. Beáta, editor, Die Matorische Sprache‎^[4] (in German), Szeged: JATE Finnugor Tanszék, →ISBN, page 373

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