Reconstruction:Proto-Eskimo/nuliʀ(aʀ)

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

Etymology

Seemingly from the verbal root *nul(l)iʀ- (“to copulate with”) +‎ *aʀ (“thing resembling something”, post-base).

Noun

*nuliʀ(aʀ)

wife

Derived terms

*nuliʀ(aʀ)iʀ- (“to lose one's wife”)

Descendants

Proto-Yupik: *nuliʀaʀ
- Alutiiq: nulir
- Yup'ik: nuliaq, nulirr
- Naukanski: нуле̄ӄ (nuliaq)
- Central Siberian Yupik: nuliiq, nuliχ
- Sirenik: нуци́ӽ (nucíχ)
Proto-Inuit: *nuliaq
- Inupiaq: nuliaq
- Inuvialuktun: nuliaq
- Inuktitut: ᓄᓕᐊᖅ (noliaq), nuliaq
- Inuktun: nuliaq
- Greenlandic: nuliaq
- Tunumiisut: nuliaq

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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