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Reconstruction:Proto-Samoyedic/wën

This Proto-Samoyedic 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-Samoyedic

Etymology

Borrowed from Proto-Tocharian *kwän-.

Noun

*wën

  1. dog

Descendants
  • Nganasan: баӈ (baŋ)
  • Enets:
    • Forest Enets: бунки, бунык
  • Nenets:
  • Selkup:
    • Northern Selkup: канак (kanak)
    • Southern Selkup:
  • Kamassian: мен (men)
  • Koibal: мянъ
  • Mator: бўнь

References
  • Janhunen, Juha. 1977. Samojedischer Wortschatz: Gemeinsamojedische Etymologien ('Samoyedic Vocabulary: Common Samoyedic Etymologies'). Castreanianumin toimitteita 17. Helsinki: Suomalais-Ugrilainen Seura. →ISBN.
  • Peter S. Piispanen (2018) “Turkic lexical borrowings in Samoyed”, in Acta Linguistica Petropolitana, volume 14, number 3
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