Reconstruction:Proto-Yeniseian/dukʷ

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 *dujč (“charred object, blackened by fire”).

Noun

*dukʷ

1. smoke

Descendants

• Northern Yeniseian:
  • Ket: ду’
  • Yug: ду’
• Southern Yeniseian:
  • Arin: t́u
  • Assan: tu
  • Kott: tu
  • ⇒ Pumpokol: dúkar (“tobacco”)

References

• Vajda, E. (2024) The Languages and Linguistics of Northern Asia: Language Families (The World of Linguistics [WOL]; 10.1)‎^[1], volume 1, Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter Mouton, →DOI, →ISBN, page 412: “*dukʷ”

Further reading

• 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)‎^[2], Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 330: “*duwkʷ”