Reconstruction:Proto-Yeniseian/bejx

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

Has been compared to Proto-Na-Dene *kˀʷejx (“wind, blow”).

Noun

*bejx

1. wind, blow

Descendants

• Northern Yeniseian:
  • Ket: бей
  • Yug: бей
• Southern Yeniseian:
  • Arin: paj
  • Assan: pej, bej
  • Kott: pei
  • Pumpokol: baj

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, pages 269, 383: “*bejx”