Proto-Yenisseian: *ʔVKV
Meaning: to bend
Kottish: d́-aki (inf.); d́-ōkiaŋ, praet. d́-ōnakiaŋ, imp. d́-anki, pass. d́-ōnaki
Comments: ССЕ 203. Werner 1, 220 compares the Kott. form with Ket. ĺɔj 'to lean on' and reconstructs <*ʎok->. This is dubious because d́- in Kottish is definitely a prefix (see the paradigm above), while in the Ket form it is a part of the root, for which Werner himself (2, 11) reconstructs a protoform <*loʔǝjǝ / *loʔǝj> (see *ŕōj), thus contradicting himself. Besides, tone 4 (original length) in *ŕōj does not favour reconstruction of any intervocalic velar in the latter root. All these consideration do not allow us so far to make the reconstruction for Kott. d́-aki any more precise than *ʔVKV.
