- Tytuł:
- Urban legends: Turkish kayık ‘boat’ and “Eskimo” qayaq ‘kayak’
- Autorzy:
- de la Fuente, José Andrés Alonso
- Powiązania:
- https://bibliotekanauki.pl/articles/634649.pdf
- Data publikacji:
- 2010
- Wydawca:
- Uniwersytet Jagielloński. Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Jagiellońskiego
- Tematy:
- Turkic languages, Eskimo-Aleut languages, philology, etymology, chance similarity
- Opis:
- The main goal of this paper is to show that the proposed relationship between Turkish kayık ‘boat’ and Eskimo qayaq ‘kayak’ is far-fetched. After a philological analysis of the available materials, it will be proven that the oldest attestation and recoverable stages of these words are kay-guk (11th c.) < Proto-Turkic */kad-/ in */kad-ï/ ‘fir tree’ and */qan-yaq/ (see Greenlandic pl. form kainet, from 18th c.) < Proto-Eskimo */qan(ə)-/ ‘to go/come (near)’ respectively. The explicitness of the linguistic evidence enables us to avoid the complex historical and cultural (archaeological) observations related to the hypothetical scenarios concerning encounters between the Turkic and Eskimo(-Aleut) populations, so typical in a discussion of this issue. In the process of this main elucidation, two marginal questions will be addressed too: the limited occasions on which “Eskimo” materials are dealt with in English (or other language) sources, and the etymology of (Atkan) Aleut iqya- ‘single-hatch baidara’.
- Źródło:
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Studia Linguistica Universitatis Iagellonicae Cracoviensis; 2010, 127
2083-4624 - Pojawia się w:
- Studia Linguistica Universitatis Iagellonicae Cracoviensis
- Dostawca treści:
- Biblioteka Nauki
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