Reconstruction:Proto-Eskimo/nayaɣ

This Proto-Eskimo 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-Eskimo

Noun

*nayaɣ

younger sister (of a man)

Descendants

Proto-Yupik: *nayaɣ
- Alutiiq: nayagak, nayaaq
- Yup'ik: nassak
  - Hooper Bay-Chevak: nayyak (“unmarried girl, virgin”), nayagaq (“younger sister”)
- Naukanski: наяк (nayak), наягак (nayaɣaq)
- Central Siberian Yupik: наяк, nayak
Proto-Inuit: *nayaɣ
- Inupiaq: nayak
- Inuvialuktun: nayak
- Inuktitut: ᓇᔭᒃ (nayak), nayak
- Inuktun: najak
- Greenlandic: najak
- Tunumiisut: najak

References

Fortescue, Michael, Jacobson, Steven, Kaplan, Lawrence (2010) Comparative Eskimo Dictionary with Aleut Cognates, 2nd edition, Fairbanks: Alaska Native Language Center: University of Alaska Fairbanks, →ISBN

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