Reconstruction:Proto-Mongolic/ide-
Proto-Mongolic
Reconstruction
Unproblematic, lowering in Buryat and Yugur, intrusive r in Mongghul, nasalization in Bonan and palatalization in Dongxiang are all well documented or regular.
Verb
*ide-
- to eat
See also
- *uxu- (“to drink”)
Descendants
- Middle Mongol:
- Mongolian:
- Classical: ᠢᠳᠡᠬᠦ (idekü)
- Khalkha Mongolian: идэх (idex)
- Ordos: /ide-/
- Kalmyk: идх (idx)
- Buryat: эдихэ (edixe)
- Khamnigan Mongol: idekü, idikü
- Daur: idgw
- East Yugur: ede
- Monguor:
- Bonan: nde
- Kangjia: ide
- Dongxiang: ijie
- Mogholi: idaku
References
- Nugteren, Hans (2011) Mongolic phonology and the Qinghai-Gansu languages (dissertation)[1], Utrecht: LOT, page 374