Reconstruction:Proto-Eskimo/ana-ana

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

Etymology

Likely cognate to Aleut anax. Also akin to Proto-Turkic *ana (“mother”), *ana-ene, seems like a coincidence.

Noun

*ana-ana

mother

Descendants

Proto-Yupik: *ana-ana
- Yup'ik: aana
- Alutiiq: aana
- Central Siberian Yupik: naa, ana
- Sirenik: nana
Proto-Inuit: *anaana
- Inupiaq: aana, aaka
- Inuvialuktun: anaana, amaamak
- Inuktitut: anaana
- Greenlandic: anaana
- Inuktun: anaana
- Tunumiisut: annivik

References

Fortescue, Michael; Jacobson, Steven; Kaplan, Lawrence (2010). Comparative Eskimo Dictionary with Aleut Cognates. Fairbanks: Alaska Native Language Center.
Starostin, George (ed.) 2011-2019. The Global Lexicostatistical Database. Moscow: Higher School of Economics, & Santa Fe: Santa Fe Institute. Available online at http://starling.rinet.ru/new100/
Lorentzen, S. Den grønlandske ordbog, at oqaasileriffik.gl

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