Pumpokol:ССЕ 277. A compound of the root *sul with *pi 'berry' q.v. Werner 2, 443 (compares *sul- with Kott. šul- in šul-ej 'egg', about which see, however in *jeŋ / *jɔŋ).
Comments:ССЕ 278. The Yenisseian words for "blood" and "red" are obviously derived from the same root. Therefore quite strange is the opposition sur "blood" : tura "red" in Arin (with a quite ireegular t- in the adjective Anlaut). The original *sura "red" in this language could have contaminated with some other root, most probably, *tu "raw" (q.v.); or else we are dealing with an old loanword from Pumpokol, where the reflex t- is regular. Werner 2, 219 <*suʎ>.
Comments:ССЕ 278. In Kottish *suŕ- 'yellow' and *sur- 'red, blood' are distinctly opposed; in Ket and Pumpokol they merged for phonetic reasons (merging of the reflexes of *-r- and *-ŕ-). On Werner's reconstruction <*sʌj / *sʌn-> see under *son-.
Comments:ССЕ 279. The Kott. and Ket-Yug forms can be compared only if we acknowledge a dissimilation in Kottish (šurakŋ < *šuʁakŋ); Werner's remark that "die kot. Form geht auf ein altes Kompositum zurück" does not clarify things. Werner 2, 175 <*sugǝk>.
Comments:ССЕ 279. Probably a compound: for the second component cf. Yug kɔʔl 'stump' (see *gɔʔl-). The end of the Pumpokol form is unclear. Werner 2, 215 <*suŋkol->.
Proto-Yenisseian:*sVs-
Meaning:to sit
Ket:sésete "I sit" [ост. (М), Дульзон: cf. Kur. bur śéśtъ "he sits", Yel. ad sēstä "I sit"; Werner 2, 187: śɛ́śta]
Yug:sɛ́sta / sɛ́stɛ
Pumpokol:tɨt-kódu (Сл.) "sit"
Comments:ССЕ 279. Cf. *hVs- 'to be'. Werner's remarks (2, 187) are hard to understand. He says: "ob man in diesem Fall PJ *sVs- rekonstruieren kann, bleibt problematisch wegen dem unregelmäßigen Charakter des Paradigmas, man könnte eher an eine Entlehnung des sɛs-Elementes denken; außerdem dubliert dieses Verbum die ket. und jug. Verben mit derselben Bedeutung". Almost every verbal paradigm in Yenisseian is irregular; there are lots of synonymous verbs (for the notions "to be", "to sit", "to stand" etc.); and what would be the source of such a borrowed "sɛs-element"? I can only think of Hittite ses-...
Comments:ССЕ 280. Yug has an assimilative devoicing (as in xɔfat 'back' vs. Ket qɔbǝt). Despite Werner's (2, 248) doubts we obviously have a combination of the root *ta- / *tɔ- with various second components. The most transparent combination is *ta + *bul 'foot', whence Ket tabuĺaŋ, Yug tafɨlɨŋ 'barefoot' and probably Kott. thapalo (with further semantic development 'barefoot' > 'naked'). The meaning of the components -(t)puĺ in Ket tɔtpuĺ 'bald' and -ńɔl in Ket tɔńɔĺ 'naked' is so far unclear; Werner's hypothesis that tɔńǝĺ is a compound of tɔʔn 'so, simply' + ɔʔl 'shell' is hardly acceptable - just because the meaning 'simply' is not attested for tɔʔn (which is just an adverbial form of the demonstrative pronoun).
Ket:tāɣǝ1 (North.), South. tau4 / tauɣ4; pl. tāɣɨn1
Yug:tāk, pl. tagɨn1
Comments:ССЕ 280. The South-Imb. form presupposes a prototype *tāku with irregular -u-Auslaut and length; reasons of such a development are unclear. Werner 2, 253 <*thagǝ>.
