Yenisseian etymology : Query result

Proto-Yenisseian: *ʒVl

Sino-Caucasian etymology: Sino-Caucasian etymology

Meaning: child

Ket: dɨ̄ĺ, pl. dɨĺget⁵

Yug: dɨl, pl. dɨlǝt⁵ / dɨĺgǝt⁵

Kottish: d́al, pl. d́akat "child"; d́aleä, d́äleä "girl"; (Бол.) jali in pašup jali "step-son", alit-äli "girl"; Ass. alit-jali (М., Сл., Срсл., Кл.) "girl"; jali (М., Сл., Срсл., Кл.) "child, boy"

Arin: bi-ḱal (М., Сл., Срсл., Кл.) "boy", biḱál (М., Сл., Срсл., Кл.) "son"; biḱaĺa (М., Сл., Срсл., Кл.) "daughter" (Дульз. biqaĺa "girl"); (Лоск.) akel "son", akelä "daughter"; kalhona (Срсл.) "small", kalqóna (М., Сл., Кл.) id.

Pumpokol: pí-kola "girl, daughter" (Сл., Срсл., Кл.,); xilúŋla (Сл., Срсл.) "child", xiĺuŋdu (Сл., Срсл., Кл.) "small"; akil (Сл.) "elder sister"

Comments: ССЕ 308. Pump. dul (Кл.) "child" is in reality a Yug form. The Ket and Kott. plural is formed as a compound of *ʒVl with *gǝʔt 'children' (q.v.). Werner (2, 219) reluctantly admits that the Kott. form can be related with Ket and Yug and says: "sollte man eher PJ *d'ǝl vermuten" - however, his *d'ǝl ( = our *ǯǝl) would have yielded Yug d'ɨl, not dɨl. The reconstruction *ʒ- (with the reflexes Ket, Yug d- : Kott. d́- : Ar., Pump. k-, quite parallel to those of *c- > Ket, Yug t-: Kott. h-/t-: Ar., Pump. k- (x)-) is therefore inevitable, and there is no need to derive the Arin and Pumpokol forms from PY *qar- 'grandchild'.