Zur Etymologie der westsibirischen Hydronyme auf -get/-gat (-ket/-kat)

• Authors: Heinrich Werner

Title variants

EN

Etymology of the West-Siberian hydronyms in -get/-gat (-ket/-kat)

• Languages of publication: DE

Abstracts

EN

Besides the trustworthy Yeniseic toponyms in Western Siberia ending in *-ses ‘river’ (Ket/Yugh -ses, Arin -set, Assan/Kott -šet, Pump. -tet) there is a group of hydronyms in the same zones of frequent Yeniseic river names ending in -tes/-tas, -lat, -igaj, -sym/-tym, -tom and -get/-gat (-ket/-kat). One considers them to be Yeniseic too, but only conditionally. The author suggests an etymological explanation of the river names ending in -get/-gat (-ket/-kat), while he derives this component from *-kʌʔt ‘children of the same mother’ with the semantic development: > ‘members of a family’ > ‘members of a family clan’ > ‘tribe’ > ‘people’. The corresponding river names are clipped forms without the appellative ‘river’.

Keywords

EN

etymology; West-Siberian hydronyms; language contact; toponyms; linguistic history

• Publisher: Uniwersytet Jagielloński
• Journal: Studia Etymologica Cracoviensia
• Year: 2012
• Volume: 17
• Issue: 3
• Pages: 141-150

Dates

online

2012-09-23

Contributors

author

Heinrich Werner

Identifiers

DOI

10.4467/20843836SE.12.010.0400