Reconstruction:Proto-Samoyedic/åncu

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

Etymology

Uncertain. Has been compared with Proto-Mordvinic *unža (“beetle”), but both the difference in meaning and the isolation of the latter term invite caution.

Noun

*åncu^[1]

louse

Reconstruction notes

The heterorganic cluster in Nganasan ӈомту (ŋomtu) is probably a later innovation. Both Selkup and Kamassian-Koibal point to a homorganic cluster *nc.

Descendants

Nganasan: ӈомту (ŋomtu)^[2]
Enets:
- Forest Enets: аду (adu)^[3]
Proto-Selkup: *unčə^[4]
- Northern Selkup: унты (unty)^[5]
- Southern Selkup:
  - Narym: унҗ (unǯ)^[6]
  - Upper Ob: удж (udž)^[7]
Kamassian: ӱнӱ (ünü)^[8]
- Koibal: унӧ (unö)^[9] [? = ӱнӧ (ünö)]

References

^ Ante Aikio (2020) Uralic Etymological Dictionary (draft version of entries A–Ć; 1/17/2020)‎^[1], page 17
^ http://www.northeuralex.org/languages/nio
^ https://siberianlanguages.surrey.ac.uk/resource/forest-enets-lexical-words?q=adu&offset=1
^ T. Janurik (2023) “A protoszölkup nyelvállapot és fejleményei. Elektronikus kézirat.”, in Szamojéd Tudástár‎^[2] (in Hungarian), page 16
^ O. A. Kazakevich, Ye. M. Budyanskaya (2010) Диалектологический словарь селькупского языка (северное наречие) [Dialectological dictionary of the Selkup language (Northern continuum)], Yekaterinburg: Institute of Philology of the Siberian Branch of the RAS; Баско, →ISBN, page 150 of 368
^ I. A. Korobeynikova (2020) Родное слово [Native word], Tomsk: Аграф-Пресс; Вайар, →ISBN, page 112 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 100 of 109
^ Donner, Kai R. (1944) Kamassisches Wörterbuch nebst Sprachproben und Hauptzügen der Grammatik‎^[3], Helsinki: Suomalais-Ugrilainen Seura, page 82
^ T. Janurik (2021) Kojbál szótár: a publikált szójegyzékek egyesített szótára.‎^[4] (in Hungarian), Székesfehérvár, pages 15, 116

[1] Ante Aikio (2020) Uralic Etymological Dictionary (draft version of entries A–Ć; 1/17/2020)‎^[1], page 17

[2] ttp://www.northeuralex.org/languages/nio

[3] ttps://siberianlanguages.surrey.ac.uk/resource/forest-enets-lexical-words?q=adu&offset=1

[4] T. Janurik (2023) “A protoszölkup nyelvállapot és fejleményei. Elektronikus kézirat.”, in Szamojéd Tudástár‎^[2] (in Hungarian), page 16

[5] O. A. Kazakevich, Ye. M. Budyanskaya (2010) Диалектологический словарь селькупского языка (северное наречие) [Dialectological dictionary of the Selkup language (Northern continuum)], Yekaterinburg: Institute of Philology of the Siberian Branch of the RAS; Баско, →ISBN, page 150 of 368

[6] I. A. Korobeynikova (2020) Родное слово [Native word], Tomsk: Аграф-Пресс; Вайар, →ISBN, page 112 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 100 of 109

[8] Donner, Kai R. (1944) Kamassisches Wörterbuch nebst Sprachproben und Hauptzügen der Grammatik‎^[3], Helsinki: Suomalais-Ugrilainen Seura, page 82

[9] T. Janurik (2021) Kojbál szótár: a publikált szójegyzékek egyesített szótára.‎^[4] (in Hungarian), Székesfehérvár, pages 15, 116

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