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:
  • Tundra Nenets: вэ̇ʼ (wėh)
  • Forest Nenets: вэн (wen)
• Selkup:
  • Northern Selkup: канак (kanak)
  • Southern Selkup:
    • Narym: кана́к
    • Upper Ob: кананг
• 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