Yup’ik Loanword Etymologies for the Yukaghir Languages and Dialects

• Published in: Études/Inuit/Studies
• Main Author: Piispanen, Peter S.
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: Centre interuniversitaire d’études et de recherches autochtones (CIÉRA) 2022
• Subjects: Lexical borrowing; Eskimo-Aleut; Yup’ik; Inuit; Yukaghir; language contact; genetic language affiliation; Emprunt lexical; Esquimau-Aléout; yupik; youkaguir; contact linguistique; affiliation génétique; Kolyma; aleut; eskimo*; Eskimo–Aleut; esquimaux; Études/Inuit/Studies; inuit; kolyma river; Tundra; Youkaguir*; Yupik; Siberia
• Online Access: http://id.erudit.org/iderudit/1096507ar; https://doi.org/10.7202/1096507ar

In this paper, up to twenty-eight new Yukaghir etymologies are described as Eskimo borrowings into the Yukaghir languages and dialects of far northeastern Siberia, with phonological and semantic considerations for each suggestion. These findings provide new insights into the historical phonology of...