Reconstruction:Proto-Eskimo/nayaɣ

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

*nayaɣ

younger sister (of a male)

Descendants

Yupik: *Najjaɣ
- Yup'ik: nayagaq
- Alutiiq: nayak
- Central Siberian Yupik: nayak
- Sirenik: najex
Inuit: *najaɣ
- Inupiaq: nayak
- Inuvialuktun: nayak
- Inuktitut: najak
- Greenlandic: najak
- Inuktun: najak
- Tunumiisut: najak

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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