Reconstruction:Proto-Mongolic/bulugan

This Proto-Mongolic entry contains reconstructed terms and roots. As such, the term(s) in this entry are not directly attested, but are hypothesized to have existed based on comparative evidence.

Proto-Mongolic

Reconstruction

Ordos and Yugur point towards *bulagan and Sino-Mongolic sources and Persian loan show *bulugan, while some languages derive from an early syncopated form *bulgan.

Daur and Yugur exhibit delabialization due to initial *b-.

Etymology

Altaicists propose a connection with Middle Japanese ふるき (furuki, “a kind of sable”).

Perhaps separable into *bulu- +‎ *-gan, with the second element recurring in other animal names.(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Noun

*bulugan

  1. sable

Descendants

  • Middle Mongol:
  • Mongolian:
    • Classical: ᠪᠤᠯᠠᠭ᠎ᠠ (bulag-a)
    • Khalkha Mongolian: булга (bulga)
    • Ordos: /bʊlaɢa/
  • Buryat: булга(н) (bulga(n))
  • Khamnigan Mongol: bulga(n)
  • Kalmyk: булһн (bulğn)
  • Daur: baleg
  • East Yugur: balaghan, bulaghan (“marten”)
  • Mongghul: [Term?] (bulgha)
  • → Persian: بلغان (boloġân)
  • → Uyghur: بۇلغان (bulghan, “sable”), and possibly also بۇلغۇن (bulghun, “marten”) as similar animal

References

  • Nugteren, Hans (2011) Mongolic phonology and the Qinghai-Gansu languages (dissertation)‎[1], Utrecht: LOT, page 290
  • Doerfer, Gerhard (1963) “94. بلغان”, in Türkische und mongolische Elemente im Neupersischen [Turkic and Mongolian Elements in New Persian] (Akademie der Wissenschaften und der Literatur: Veröffentlichungen der Orientalischen Kommission; 16)‎[2] (in German), volume 1, Wiesbaden: Franz Steiner Verlag, page 215
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