Reconstruction:Proto-Samoyedic/ketä

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

From Proto-Uralic *käktä.

Numeral

*ketä

1. two

Descendants

• Nganasan: ситі (siti)
• Enets:
  • Forest Enets: ҫизи (šiði)
• Nenets:
  • Forest Nenets: шича (šyića)
  • Tundra Nenets: сидя (syidya)
• Proto-Selkup: *śitə
  • Northern Selkup: щиттяӄы (śittjaqy), шитты (šitty), (dialectal) шеде (šjedje)
  • Southern Selkup:
    • Narym Selkup: шэд (šed)
• Kamassian: шиде (šide)
• Koibal: сыда (syda)
• Mator: кыды (kydy)

References

• Janhunen, Juha. 1977. Samojedischer Wortschatz: Gemeinsamojedische Etymologien ('Samoyedic Vocabulary: Common Samoyedic Etymologies'). Castreanianumin toimitteita 17. Helsinki: Suomalais-Ugrilainen Seura. →ISBN.