Proto-Yenisseian: *čur-
Meaning: copper
Ket: tuĺä (Кастр.) "copper"
Kottish: šur (Бол.) "ore"
Comments: ССЕ 218-219. This Ket-Kott. parallel seems completely regular, but is not mentioned in Werner 2, 286 (where for tul'a only a reference to a very dubious Shor-Ket comparison from Чиспяков 1976 is given). Kott. šur 'ore' is mentioned in a strange context: it is compared with Arin (Лоск.) teminkur 'ore' (Werner 2, 258), but no reconstruction is given, and a remark is added: "vgl. kot. (H) šur ds., obwohl es die Grundbedeutung 'Blut' gibt". Kott. šur 'blood' is quite a different word (see *sur), while teminkur is a transparent compound with Turkic temir 'iron' as the first component. Actually, Arin -kur could in fact be a development of *čur (with the same development as in *čɨʔs > kes 'stone'), but this etymology can hardly be considered definitive as yet.
