Reconstruction:Proto-Eskimo/uqðuʀ

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

Etymology

Possibly cognate with Aleut aĝdax̂ (“blubber, seal oil”).

Noun

*uqðuʀ

blubber, seal oil

Derived terms

*uqðilŋu-
*uqðumyaɣ
*uqðuʀaʀ
*uqðuʀtəʀ

Related terms

*uqðuʀ- (“to apply oil to”) (verbal form)

Descendants

Proto-Yupik: *uqðuʀ
- Alutiiq: uquq
- Yup'ik: uquq
- Naukanski: uquq
- Central Siberian Yupik: uquq
- Sirenik: ugcəχ
Proto-Inuit: *uqšuq
- Inupiaq: uqsruq
- Inuvialuktun: uqsuq
  - Inuinnaqtun: uqhuq
- Inuktitut: ᐅᖅᓱᖅ (oqsoq)
- Greenlandic: orsoq
  - West Greenlandic Pidgin: oksok (“bacon”)

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, page 412

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