TY - JOUR
TI - Etymological and ethnohistorical aspects of the Yenisei
AU - Janhunen, Juha
TI - Etymological and ethnohistorical aspects of the Yenisei
AB - 
	The paper discusses the background of the different terms used for the river Yenisei in the aboriginal language families of the region: Mongolic, Turkic, Yeniseic, Uralic, and Tungusic. The etymological material allows, in particular, important conclusions to be drawn of the areal interrelationships and chronologies of expansion of the Samoyedic branch of Uralic and the Ewenic branch of Tungusic. The presence of Uralic speakers on the Yenisei predates that of
	Tungusic speakers by a minimum of two millennia. Both Yeniseic and Turkic also reached the Yenisei earlier than Tungusic.
VL - 2012
IS - Volume 17, Issue 1
PY - 2023
SN - 1427-8219
C1 - 2084-3836
SP - 67
EP - 87
DO - 10.4467/20843836SE.12.003.0393
UR - https://ejournals.eu/en/journal/studia-etymologica-cracoviensia/article/etymological-and-ethnohistorical-aspects-of-the-yenisei
KW - etymology
KW - diachrony
KW - language contact
KW - areal linguistics
KW - linguistic history