Reconstruction:Proto-Samoyedic/kåptə-

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

*kåptəŋ-

Etymology

Uncertain. Possibly from Proto-Turkic *kïp- (“to press together; to cut (with scissors)”).

Verb

*kåptə-^[1]

to castrate

Derived terms

*kåptɜ (“(castrated) reindeer”)

Descendants

Nenets:
- Tundra Nenets: хабтӑнзь (xabtănzʹ°)^[2]
Proto-Selkup: *qōptəŋ-^[3]
- Northern Selkup: ӄоптыӈӄо (qoptyŋqo)^[4]
- Southern Selkup:
  - Upper Ob: куоптэнггу (kuoptenggu)^[5]

References

^ Janhunen, Juha. 1977. Samojedischer Wortschatz: Gemeinsamojedische Etymologien ('Samoyedic Vocabulary: Common Samoyedic Etymologies'). Castreanianumin toimitteita 17. Helsinki: Suomalais-Ugrilainen Seura. →ISBN.
^ N. M. Tereschenko (1965) Ненецко-русский словарь, Moscow: Советская Энциклопедия, page 615
^ T. Janurik (2023) “A protoszölkup nyelvállapot és fejleményei. Elektronikus kézirat.”, in Szamojéd Tudástár‎^[1] (in Hungarian), page 22
^ 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 58 of 368
^ G. Yu. Kostyuchenko (2023) Тюйкуй Йэжиссан – Селькупский словарь для остяков Молчановского района [Tjuykuy Yezhissan – Selkup dictionary for Molchanovo district Selkup people], Molchanovo, page 34 of 109

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

[2] N. M. Tereschenko (1965) Ненецко-русский словарь, Moscow: Советская Энциклопедия, page 615

[3] T. Janurik (2023) “A protoszölkup nyelvállapot és fejleményei. Elektronikus kézirat.”, in Szamojéd Tudástár‎^[1] (in Hungarian), page 22

[4] 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 58 of 368

[5] G. Yu. Kostyuchenko (2023) Тюйкуй Йэжиссан – Селькупский словарь для остяков Молчановского района [Tjuykuy Yezhissan – Selkup dictionary for Molchanovo district Selkup people], Molchanovo, page 34 of 109

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