Reconstruction:Proto-Eskimo/nuka-

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

*nuka-

youngest sibling; boy

Descendants

Yupik: *nuka (“young man, man in his prime, sister, second wife”)
- Yup'ik: uyuraq
- Alutiiq: uyuwaq
- Central Siberian Yupik: uyughaq
- Sirenik: ungjex
Inuit: *nụkạ (“younger sibling of the same sex; boy, young unmarried man”)
- Inupiaq: nukaq, nukaaluk
- Inuvialuktun: nukaq
- Inuktitut: nukaq
- Greenlandic: nukaq
- Inuktun: nukaq
- Tunumiisut: nukaq

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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