Reconstruction:Proto-Eskimo/iʀnəʀ

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

*iʀnəʀ

son

Derived terms

*iʀni- (“to birth”)

Descendants

Proto-Yupik: *iʀnəʀ
- Naukanski: иӷныӄ (irneq)
- Central Siberian Yupik: иӷныӄ, irneq
Proto-Inuit: *iʀnəq
- North Alaskan Inupiatun: iġñiq
- Inuvialuktun: irniq
  - Inuinnaqtun: irniq
- Inuktitut: ᐃᕐᓂᖅ (irniq), irniq
- Inuktun: irniq
- Greenlandic: erneq, ⇒ erniu (“to be born”)
- Tunumiisut: erneq

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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