Proto-Yenisseian: *hāGVĺ
Meaning: cloggy, sludgy
Ket: a:ĺ3 "broth, fish or meat soup"
Yug: a:ĺ3; a:ĺɛ3 'cloggy'
Kottish: hagal, hakal 'thick (soup, porridge)'
Comments: ССЕ 230. The words are quite obviously related and correspond to each other completely regularly. Nevertheless, Werner (1, 90) attempts to defend different solutions. The Ket form is analyzed as a compound *ʔapV + xur1 'hot water', although we would expect something like aul3 in this case (and a similar compound *ʔapVŋ-xur1 is attested as a:ŋ-ūl). Such an analysis is completely impossible for the Yug form (we would have afur), so for Yug Werner gives a separate reconstruction <*agǝl>. Finally, the Kottish word is found on p. 1, 291, quite separately, and with a note: vgl. ket. qōj1 ds. However, Ket. qōj1 is a rather transparent late Turkic loanword (cf. Oyr. qoju, Kaz. qoju id. etc.) and thus can have nothing to do with Kott. hagal. All these etymological "solutions" are rather difficult to justify.
