Reconstruction:Proto-Samoyedic/tə

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

From Proto-Uralic *tä, with an irregular reduction of the vowel.^[1] Possibly a doublet of *ti.

Pronoun

*tə^[2]

this
that

Derived terms

*tənä (“there”)
*tər- (“so”)

Descendants

Nganasan: тәті (təti), тәтірә (tətirə, “this”), тәә (təə, “that”), тә (tə, “well, so”)^[3]
Enets:^[4]
- Forest Enets: тоʼ (toʔ, tɔʔ, “well, so”)
- Tundra Enets: тоʼ (toʔ, tɔʔ, “there”)
Nenets:
- Forest Nenets: тамна (tamna, “still”)^[5]
- Tundra Nenets: тӑмна (tămna, “still”)^[6]
Proto-Selkup: *tam (“this”)^[7]
- Northern Selkup: там (tam), тап (tap)^[8]
- Southern Selkup:
  - Narym: тав (taw)^[9]
  - Upper Ob: тау (tau)^[10]
Kamassian: дә (də, “that; he, she”)^[11]
- Koibal: де (de, “that; he, she”)^[12]
>? Mator: ти (ti), тин (tin, “that; he, she”)^[13] (perhaps, otherwise from *ti)

References

^ Entry #1034 in Uralonet, online Uralic etymological database of the Hungarian Research Centre for Linguistics.
^ 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, pages 183, 187, 188
^ Olesya Khanina, Andrey Shluinsky (2023) Forest and Tundra Enets‎^[1], →DOI, →ISBN, page 811
^ M. Y. Barmich, I. A. Vello (2002) Словарь ненецко-русский и русско-ненецкий (лесной диалект), Просвещение, →ISBN, page 123
^ N. M. Tereschenko (2005) Словарь ненецко-русский и русско-ненецкий, 3rd edition, Saint Petersburg: Просвещение, →ISBN, page 128
^ T. Janurik (2023) “A protoszölkup nyelvállapot és fejleményei. Elektronikus kézirat.”, in Szamojéd Tudástár‎^[2] (in Hungarian), page 33
^ 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 129 of 368
^ I. A. Korobeynikova (2020) Родное слово [Native word], Tomsk: Аграф-Пресс; Вайар, →ISBN, page 101 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 83 of 109
^ Donner, Kai R. (1944) Kamassisches Wörterbuch nebst Sprachproben und Hauptzügen der Grammatik‎^[3], Helsinki: Suomalais-Ugrilainen Seura, page 13
^ T. Janurik (2021) Kojbál szótár: a publikált szójegyzékek egyesített szótára.‎^[4] (in Hungarian), Székesfehérvár, pages 26, 64
^ E. Helimski (1997) N. Beáta, editor, Die Matorische Sprache‎^[5] (in German), Szeged: JATE Finnugor Tanszék, →ISBN, pages 358, 360

[1] Entry #1034 in Uralonet, online Uralic etymological database of the Hungarian Research Centre for Linguistics.

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

[3] N. T. Kosterkina, A. C. Momde, T. Y. Zhdanova (2001) Словарь нганасанско-русский и русско-нганасанский, St. Petersburg: Просвещение, →ISBN, pages 183, 187, 188

[4] Olesya Khanina, Andrey Shluinsky (2023) Forest and Tundra Enets‎^[1], →DOI, →ISBN, page 811

[5] M. Y. Barmich, I. A. Vello (2002) Словарь ненецко-русский и русско-ненецкий (лесной диалект), Просвещение, →ISBN, page 123

[6] N. M. Tereschenko (2005) Словарь ненецко-русский и русско-ненецкий, 3rd edition, Saint Petersburg: Просвещение, →ISBN, page 128

[7] T. Janurik (2023) “A protoszölkup nyelvállapot és fejleményei. Elektronikus kézirat.”, in Szamojéd Tudástár‎^[2] (in Hungarian), page 33

[8] 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 129 of 368

[9] I. A. Korobeynikova (2020) Родное слово [Native word], Tomsk: Аграф-Пресс; Вайар, →ISBN, page 101 of 240

[10] G. Yu. Kostyuchenko (2023) Тюйкуй Йэжиссан – Селькупский словарь для остяков Молчановского района [Tjuykuy Yezhissan – Selkup dictionary for Molchanovo district Selkup people], Molchanovo, page 83 of 109

[11] Donner, Kai R. (1944) Kamassisches Wörterbuch nebst Sprachproben und Hauptzügen der Grammatik‎^[3], Helsinki: Suomalais-Ugrilainen Seura, page 13

[12] T. Janurik (2021) Kojbál szótár: a publikált szójegyzékek egyesített szótára.‎^[4] (in Hungarian), Székesfehérvár, pages 26, 64

[13] E. Helimski (1997) N. Beáta, editor, Die Matorische Sprache‎^[5] (in German), Szeged: JATE Finnugor Tanszék, →ISBN, pages 358, 360

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