Reconstruction:Proto-Yeniseian/baltok

This Proto-Yeniseian 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-Yeniseian

Etymology

Borrowed from Proto-Turkic *baltu (“axe”).

Noun

*baltok

1. axe

Descendants

• Northern Yeniseian:
  • Ket: төпк, төк
  • Yug: чөк
• Southern Yeniseian:
  • Arin: baltó, baltok
  • Assan: balō
  • Kott: baltʰu, báltō

References

• Fortescue, M., Vajda, E. (2022) Mid-Holocene Language Connections between Asia and North America (Brill's Studies in the Indigenous Languages of the Americas; 17)‎^[1], Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 274: “*baltok”