Reconstruction:Proto-Yeniseian/duwkʷ

This Proto-Yeniseian 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-Yeniseian

Etymology

Has been compared to Proto-Na-Dene *dujč (“charred object, blackened by fire”).

Noun

*duwkʷ[1]

smoke

Descendants

Arin: t́u
Ketic:
- Ket: ду’
- Yug: ду’
Kottic:
- Assan: tu
- Kott: tu
⇒ Pumpokol: dúkar (“tobacco”)

References

Fortescue, Michael D., Vajda, Edward J. (2022) Mid-Holocene Language Connections between Asia and North America (Brill's Studies in the Indigenous Languages of the Americas; 17)‎, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 330: “*duwkʷ”

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[1] Fortescue, Michael D., Vajda, Edward J. (2022) Mid-Holocene Language Connections between Asia and North America (Brill's Studies in the Indigenous Languages of the Americas; 17)‎, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 330: “*duwkʷ”