Reconstruction:Proto-Eskimo/qipuqqaʀ

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

Noun

*qipuqqaʀ

humpback whale

Descendants

Proto-Yupik: *qipuqaʀ
- Naukanski: qipuqaq
- Central Siberian Yupik:
  - Chaplino: qipuqaq
- Sirenik: qipuqaχ
Proto-Inuit: *qipuqqaq
- Northwest Alaskan Inupiatun: qivuqaq (“rorqual”)
- Inuktitut:
  - Baffin: ᕿᐳᖅᖃᖅ (qipoqqaq), qipuqqaq (“fin whale”)
- Greenlandic: qipoqqaq
- Tunumiisut: qiporaq
→ Alutor: ӄипуӄ
→ Chukchi: ӄипуӄ

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, page 336
Fortescue, Michael (2005) Comparative Chukotko-Kamchatkan dictionary (Trends in Linguistic Documentation; 23), Berlin – New York: de Gruyter, →ISBN, page 235.

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