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Reconstruction:Proto-Inuit/nukaq

This Proto-Inuit 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-Inuit

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Eskimo *nukaʀ.

Noun

*nukaq

younger same-sex sibling

Derived terms

*nukaqliq
*nukatuɣaq
*nukaunʀuq
*nukavluq
*nukaʀaq
*nukaʀiit

Descendants

North Alaskan Inupiatun: nugaq
Northwest Alaskan Inupiatun: nukaq, nuka
Inuvialuktun: nukaq
- Inuinnaqtun: nukaq
Inuktitut: ᓄᑲᖅ (nokaq), nukaq
Inuktun: nukaq
Greenlandic: nukaq, nukag (“to be a spoiled child”)
Tunumiisut: nukaq

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 260

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