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Reconstruction:Proto-Eskimo/aci
Proto-Eskimo
Noun
*aci
- area below, downward
Descendants
- Yupik: *aci
- Yup'ik: aci (“bed, space underneath”)
- Inuit: *aci, *at-
- Inupiaq: ati (“area below”), ataani (“below, underneath”)
- Inuinnaqtun: anmun (“downward, lower area”), anmut
- Greenlandic: ati (“lower part”), ataani (“under it”), ataaniippoq (“be below, under”)
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/