Reconstruction:Proto-Eskimo/iʁni-ʁ

This Proto-Eskimo entry contains reconstructed words 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

*iʁni-ʁ

son; give birth; offspring

Descendants

Yupik: *iʁnǝʁ
- Yup'ik: irneq
- Alutiiq: irneq
- Central Siberian Yupik: ighneq
- Sirenik: irnex
Inuit: *iʁni-ʁ
- Inupiaq: iġñiq
- Inuvialuktun: irniq
- Inuktitut: irniq
- Greenlandic: erneq
- Inuktun: irniq
- Tunumiisut: irniq

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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