RECURSIVE ANCESTOR EXPLORER
GLOBAL GRAPH ↗NORTH-STAR FEATURE / ROOT OF THE ROOT
WORD → PARENT → PARENT → UNKNOWNGO TO
THE ROOT.
Do not stop at the first ancestor. Follow every cited route—through compounds, reconstructions, and disagreements—until human knowledge actually stops.
START / NODE 564GreenlandicGreenlandic record–today
qajaq
The Greenlandic word for a kayak, part of an Inuit and Proto-Eskimo word family whose history is independent of the nearly identical Turkish boat word kayık.
“Qajaq and Turkish kayık look alike and both mean boat—yet the best philological analysis gives them separate Eskimo and Turkic prehistories. Similar form plus identical meaning is still not proof of kinship.”OPEN COMPLETE WORD DOSSIER ↗
EVERY REVIEWED PARENT, NOT ONE EDITORIAL PATH
FOLLOW EVERY BRANCH.
Compound components and competing routes stay separate. Every arrow retains its sound change, semantic change, scholar, confidence, and exact sources.
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PARENT ROUTES1 REVIEWED RELATIONSHIP
Greenlandicqajaq
kayak; traditional narrow hunting and travel craft
↑GO DEEPER
Proto-Eskimo · Proto-Eskimo reconstruction*qan-yaqreconstructed kayak formation
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RECONSTRUCTED, NOT DIRECTLY ATTESTED
- SOUND CHANGE
- Greenlandic qajaq continues the independently reconstructed Proto-Eskimo kayak formation; exact intermediate dialect stages are not over-specified.
- SEMANTIC CHANGE
- The watercraft referent remains central.
- SCHOLAR
- José Andrés Alonso de la Fuente · Oqaasileriffik
- CONFIDENCE
- probable — The Greenlandic form is attested and the Proto-Eskimo form reconstructed.
2 CITATIONSQajaq-termsQajaq-terms — qajaq and derived terminology Urban legends: Turkish kayık “boat” and “Eskimo” qayaq “kayak”Abstract and pp. 7–24 — Greenlandic and Proto-Eskimo history AUDIT CANONICAL EDGE 522 ↗
Documents the living Greenlandic form and watercraft field.
ORIGINAL ↗Places qajaq in the separate Eskimo reconstruction.
ORIGINAL ↗THE ASTERISK IS A PROMISE
RECONSTRUCTION IS
NOT INSCRIPTION.
Crossing into a starred form changes the evidence class. The interface marks that crossing, preserves confidence, and never manufactures the next root to make the picture look complete.