Reconstruction:Proto-Eskimo/qayaʀ

This Proto-Eskimo 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-Eskimo

Alternative reconstructions

*qanʸaʀ

Etymology

Likely cognate to Aleut iqyax̂, iqax̂ (“long, traditional kayak-like boat”).

Noun

*qayaʀ

kayak

Derived terms

*qayaʀtuʀ- (“to paddle in a kayak”)

Descendants

Proto-Yupik: *qayaʀ
- Alutiiq: qayaq
- Yup'ik: qayaq
- Naukanski: ӄаяӄ (qayaq)
- Central Siberian Yupik: ӄаяӄ, qayaq
- Sirenik: ӄаяӽ (qayaχ)
Proto-Inuit: *qayaq
- Inupiaq: qayaq
- Inuvialuktun: qayaq
- Inuktitut: ᖃᔭᖅ (qayaq), qayaq
  - → English: kayak
    - → Scottish Gaelic: caidheag
    - → Japanese: カヤック (kayakku)
    - → Romanian: caiac
- Inuktun: qajaq
- Greenlandic: qajaq
  - West Greenlandic Pidgin: kyak ("ship")
  - → Danish: kajak
    - → French: kayak
    - → Faroese: kajakk
- Tunumiisut: qajaq

References

Fortescue, Michael, Jacobson, Steven, Kaplan, Lawrence (2010) Comparative Eskimo Dictionary with Aleut Cognates, 2nd edition, Fairbanks: Alaska Native Language Center: University of Alaska Fairbanks, →ISBN

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