Yenisseian etymology : Query result

Proto-Yenisseian: *ǯida

Sino-Caucasian etymology: Sino-Caucasian etymology

Meaning: woodcock (глухарь)

Ket: dīt, pl. dɛkŋ⁵; dɛttej⁵ "woodcock wooing"

Yug: dit́, pl. dɛkŋ⁵

Kottish: fēn-ćera, phēn-ćera, g. -ćerā//-ćerai, pl. -ćatn, ćetn

Comments: ССЕ 310. Yug dit́ < *d́it with a metathesis of palatalisation; otherwise the correspondences are regulare (the Kott. form means literally "female woodcock"). Werner (2, 193) doubts this explanation and the attribution of the Kottish form and reconstructs <*dit'>.