Proto-Eskimo: *qăʁ(u)-ɫiɣ
Meaning: fork, pants
Russian meaning: развилка, штаны
Comments: A special cultural term with irregular vowel correspondences. Cf. also SWG qulit pl. 'knee pieces of trousers'. It looks like a derivative from the intransitive verb stem in Proto-Inupik and from the transitive verb stem in Proto-Yupik.
Comparative Eskimo Dictionary: 288