Reconstruction:Proto-Yukaghir/qoroj

Etymology
Supposedly a wanderword,  ultimately from. Fortescue (2005) proposes the following route:

Proto-Uralic > >, whence borrowed into both Proto-Yukaghir and , whence further borrowed into  (compare ).

Ante Aikio (2014) proposes a direct borrowing from Proto-Samoyedic, and in turn links the Proto-Uralic term to.

Piispanen (2018) is of the opinion that the Yukaghir term is a borrowing from either Proto-Chukotko-Kamchatkan or, less probably, directly from into Southern Yukaghir.

The basis for the reconstruction relies entirely on the assumption that the term is borrowed from another, neighbouring, proto-language. If however, as Piispanen (2018) suggests, the term was a direct borrowing into Southern Yukaghir, the Proto-Yukaghir term probably did not exist.

Noun

 * 1) two-year-old male reindeer