Reconstruction:Proto-Samoyedic/ket-

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

Alternative reconstructions

(Older reconstruction) *kit-, *ki-
(Selkup) *ke-

Etymology

From *ket (“shape, figure, appearance”), via an intermediate meaning ‘body’.^[1]

Pronoun

*ket-^[2]

(genitive, accusative) pronominal stem

Descendants

⇒ Nganasan: сыты (sɨtɨ, “he, she, it”), сытыӈ (sɨtɨŋ, “they (pl.)”), сыті (sɨti, “they (du.)”)^[3]
Enets:^[4]
- Forest Enets: ҫи- (ši-), ҫит- (šit-), ҫиз- (šiz-)
- Tundra Enets: ши- (ši-), шит- (šit-), шиз- (šiz-)
Nenets:
- Forest Nenets: шиˮ- (šyiq-), шич- (šyić-)^[5]
- Tundra Nenets: сиˮ- (syiq-), сит- (syit-), сид- (syid-)^[6]
Proto-Selkup: *ši-^[7]
- Northern Selkup: шi- (ši-)^[8]
- Southern Selkup:
  - Narym: шик (šik), шим (šim, “me”)^[9]
  - Upper Ob: сигу (sigu, “to do for oneself”)^[10]

References

^ Ante Aikio (2006) “New and Old Samoyed Etymologies, Part 2”, in Finnisch-Ugrische Forschungen, pages 17-19
^ 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, page 161
^ Olesya Khanina, Andrey Shluinsky (2023) Forest and Tundra Enets‎^[1], →DOI, →ISBN, page 809
^ M. Y. Barmich, I. A. Vello (2002) Словарь ненецко-русский и русско-ненецкий (лесной диалект), Просвещение, →ISBN, page 156
^ N. M. Tereschenko (2005) Словарь ненецко-русский и русско-ненецкий, 3rd edition, Saint Petersburg: Просвещение, →ISBN, pages 114-117
^ T. Janurik (2023) “A protoszölkup nyelvállapot és fejleményei. Elektronikus kézirat.”, in Szamojéd Tudástár‎^[2] (in Hungarian), page 24
^ 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 168 of 368
^ I. A. Korobeynikova (2020) Родное слово [Native word], Tomsk: Аграф-Пресс; Вайар, →ISBN, page 130 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 70 of 109

[1] Ante Aikio (2006) “New and Old Samoyed Etymologies, Part 2”, in Finnisch-Ugrische Forschungen, pages 17-19

[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, page 161

[4] Olesya Khanina, Andrey Shluinsky (2023) Forest and Tundra Enets‎^[1], →DOI, →ISBN, page 809

[5] M. Y. Barmich, I. A. Vello (2002) Словарь ненецко-русский и русско-ненецкий (лесной диалект), Просвещение, →ISBN, page 156

[6] N. M. Tereschenko (2005) Словарь ненецко-русский и русско-ненецкий, 3rd edition, Saint Petersburg: Просвещение, →ISBN, pages 114-117

[7] T. Janurik (2023) “A protoszölkup nyelvállapot és fejleményei. Elektronikus kézirat.”, in Szamojéd Tudástár‎^[2] (in Hungarian), page 24

[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 168 of 368

[9] I. A. Korobeynikova (2020) Родное слово [Native word], Tomsk: Аграф-Пресс; Вайар, →ISBN, page 130 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 70 of 109

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