%0 Journal Article
%T Zur Etymologie der westsibirischen Hydronyme auf -get/-gat (-ket/-kat)
%A Werner, Heinrich
%J Studia Etymologica Cracoviensia
%V 2012
%R 10.4467/20843836SE.12.010.0400
%N Volume 17, Issue 3
%P 141-150
%K etymology, diachrony, language contact, areal linguistics, linguistic history
%@ 1427-8219
%D 2013
%U https://ejournals.eu/en/journal/studia-etymologica-cracoviensia/article/zur-etymologie-der-westsibirischen-hydronyme-auf-get-gat-ket-kat
%X 
	Etymology of the West-Siberian hydronyms in -get/-gat (-ket/-kat)
	Besides the trustworthy Yeniseic toponyms in Western Siberia ending in *-ses ‘river’ (Ket/Yugh -ses, Arin -set, Assan/Kott -šet, Pump. -tet) there is a group of hydronyms in the same zones of frequent Yeniseic river names ending in -tes/-tas, -lat, -igaj, -sym/-tym, -tom and -get/-gat (-ket/-kat). One considers them to be Yeniseic too, but only conditionally. The author suggests an etymological explanation of the river names ending in -get/-gat (-ket/-kat), while he derives this component from *-kʌʔt ‘children of the same mother’ with the semantic development: > ‘members of a family’ > ‘members of a family clan’ > ‘tribe’ > ‘people’. The corresponding river names are clipped forms without the appellative ‘river’.