Reconstruction:Proto-Samoyedic/kətå

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

Reconstruction

The reconstruction *kəčå is also possible, in the absense of Central and Southern Selkup descendants.

Etymology

Unclear. Earlier often taken as a reflex of Proto-Uralic *künče (“nail”), but the sound correspondences are mostly irregular (the words only share *k- and possibly *-č-).

Noun

*kətå

1. nail, claw

Descendants

• Nganasan: кəту (kətu)
• Enets:
  • Forest Enets: коза (koða)
  • Tundra Enets: [script needed] (koda)
• Nenets:
  • Forest Nenets: кӑта (kăta)
  • Tundra Nenets: хӑда (xăda)
• Proto-Selkup: *k͔atə
  • Northern Selkup: ӄаты (qaty)
  • Southern Selkup:
    • Narym Selkup: кад (kad)
    • Chulym Selkup: каж (kaž), кажэ (kaže)
• Kamassian: када (kada)
• Mator: кадамъ

References

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