Abbreviations
| AAY |
Alaska Alutiiq Yupik |
| ABL |
ablative |
| ABS |
(or abs.) absolutive |
| ACC |
(or acc.) accusative |
| AET |
Athapaskan-Eyak-Tlingit |
| Al. |
Aleut |
| ALL |
allative |
| AN |
action nominalizer |
| ANIM |
animate-class |
| ANOM |
action nominal |
| ANTICAUS |
anticausative |
| ANTIP |
antipassive |
| AOR |
aorist |
| ASTt |
Arctic Small Tool tradition |
| CAUS |
causative |
| CAY |
Central Alaskan Yupik |
| CED |
Comparative Eskimo Dictionary (Fortescue et al.) |
| Chuk. |
Chukchi |
| CK |
Chukotko-Kamchatkan |
| CKet |
Central Ket dialect |
| CSY |
Central Siberian Yupik |
| du. |
dual |
| DUR |
durative |
| DY |
Dene-Yeniseian |
| EA |
Eskaleut |
| FEM |
feminine-class |
| Fin. |
Finnish |
| FP |
Finno-Permic |
| FU |
Finno-Ugric |
| GEN |
genitive |
| HBC |
Hooper Bay-Chevak |
| IE |
Indo-European |
| IMPF |
imperfective |
| INAN |
inanimate-class |
| INCEPT |
inceptive |
| IND |
indicative |
| INFR |
inferential |
| INTRANS |
intransitive |
| INSTR |
instrumental |
| It. |
Itelmen |
| ITER |
iterative |
| KL81 |
Krauss & Leer 1981 |
| Kol. |
Kolyma (Yukaghir) |
| LOC |
locative |
| MASC |
masculine-class |
| MOM |
single action |
| NAI |
North Alaskan Inuit |
| ND |
Na-Dene |
| Nen. |
Nenets |
| Nik. |
Nikolaeva |
| Niv. |
Nivkh |
| NKet |
Northern Ket dialect |
| NMLZ |
nominalizer |
| nom. |
nominative |
| NS |
Norton Sound Yupik |
| NSY |
Naukanski Siberian Yupik |
| OBJ |
object |
| OF |
object focus |
| PAI |
Proto-Aleut |
| PART |
participle |
| PC |
Proto-Chukotian |
| PCK |
Proto-Chukotko-Kamchatkan |
| PD |
Proto-Dene |
| PDE |
Proto-Dene-Eyak |
| P-DY |
Proto-Dene-Yeniseian |
| PE |
Proto-Eskimoan (= the language form ancestral to Yupik, Inuit and Sirenikski, but not Aleut) |
| PEA |
Proto-Eskaleut |
| PERF.PART |
perfect participle |
| PFV |
perfective aspect |
| PI |
Proto-Inuit |
| PK |
Proto-Kwakiutlan |
| PL |
(or pl.) plural |
| PN |
Proto-Nootkan |
| PND |
Proto-Na-Dene |
| PNi |
Proto-Nivkh |
| POSS |
(or poss.) possessive |
| PP |
passive participle |
| PRED |
predicative |
| PRES |
present tense |
| PS |
Proto-Samoyed |
| PST |
past tense |
| PU |
Proto-Uralic |
| P-US |
Proto-Uralo-Siberian |
| PW |
Proto-Wakashan |
| PY |
Proto-Yeniseian |
| PYuk |
Proto-Yukaghir |
| PYup |
Proto-Yupik |
| Rėd. |
Rėdei |
| REL |
relative |
| RESULT |
resultative |
| S95 |
Starostin 1995 |
| Sam. |
Samoyed |
| Samm. |
Sammallahti |
| SBJ |
subject |
| SG |
(or sing.) singular |
| Sir. |
Sirenikski |
| SKet |
Southern Ket dialect |
| SPI |
Seward Peninsula Inuit |
| TAM |
tense-aspect-mood |
| TC |
thematic consonant |
| TRANS |
transitive |
| TRIND |
transitive indicative |
| Tun. |
Tundra (Yukaghir) |
| Tung. |
Tungusic |
| Turk. |
Turkic |
| WG |
West Greenlandic |
| Yuk. |
Yukaghir |