Proto-Yenisseian: *giʔs ( /*gaʔs-)
Meaning: foot, leg
Ket: kiʔś, pl. kiśeŋ5
Yug: kiʔs, pl. kisɨŋ5
Kottish: kāčoga 'ankle-bone'
Comments: ССЕ 238. The Kott. form is either a compound or derivate (perhaps reflecting an old plural *gaʔs-Vŋ). In Timonina 1978 it is treated as a loanword from Hak. xazɨk, Tuv. kažɨk id. - but these forms do not have any secure Turkic etymology (derivation from *Kaĺuk 'spoon' in VEWT... seems hardly plausible) and may well themselves have a Yenisseian origin. Werner (1, 434) compares the Ket-Yug form with Kott. hēči 'footwear' - which he also compares with Ket. kassat (see *kassad), to say nothing of the correct comparison with Ket tɛ:śi (see *cēse).
