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Reconstruction:Proto-Yeniseian/cajs

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 *caj (“stone”). The final */s/ in Yeniseian is a singulative suffix that disappears in the plural.

Noun

*cajs[1]

  1. stone

Descendants
  • Arin: kes
  • Ketic:
  • Kottic:
    • Assan: šiš
    • Kott: šiš
  • Pumpokol: kit

References
  1. Fortescue, Michael D., Vajda, Edward J. (2022) Mid-Holocene Language Connections between Asia and North America (Brill's Studies in the Indigenous Languages of the Americas; 17)‎, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 353: “*caj-s”
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