Reconstruction:Proto-Eskimo/ata-ata

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

Compare Proto-Turkic *ata (“father”).

Noun

*ata-ata (also *ata)

father

Descendants

Proto-Yupik: *ata-ata, *ata
- Yup'ik: aata
- Alutiiq: ata
- Central Siberian Yupik: ata
- Sirenik: ata
Proto-Inuit: *ạta-ata, *aata, *ata-nǝʁ
- Inupiaq: aapa, taata
- Inuvialuktun: aappak, ataatak
- Inuktitut: ataata
- Greenlandic: ataata (“father”), aataq (“grandfather”)
- Inuktun: ataata
- Tunumiisut: alaala

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/

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