Reconstruction:Proto-Tungusic/ögi

This Proto-Tungusic 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-Tungusic

Alternative reconstructions

*ug- (per EDAL)

Etymology

Comparisons to Proto-Mongolic *öxede (“upwards”) (whence Mongolian өөд (ööd)) have been made. However, a Mongolic → Tungusic loaning direction was found more appropriate by most of scholars, including Doerfer.

Adverb

*ögi

above, upwards

Derived terms

*ögilē (“up (loc.)”)
*ögilī (“on top (prolat.)”)
*öginü (“above (dat.)”)
- *öginüki (“from above (abl.)”)
*ögisikī (“up (direct.)”)

Descendants

Jurchenic:
- Jurchen: 兀順 (wesihun /⁠u-sun⁠/)
  - Manchu: ᠸᡝᠰᡳᡥᡠᠨ (wesihun)
Tungusic:
- Northern Tungusic:
  - Even: өй (öj), өиг (öig)
  - Evenki: угӯ (ugū)
  - Negidal: уйи (uji)
  - Oroqen: uyi
- Southern Tungusic:
  - Central:
    - Oroch: уи (ui)
    - Udihe: уи (ui)
  - South-Eastern:
    - Nanai: уе (uje), увуй (uwuj)
    - Orok: уву (uvu), уи (ui)
    - Ulch: ӯву (ūwu)

Referenes

Rozycki, William Vincent (1994) Mongol Elements in Manchu (Uralic and Altaic series; 157), Bloomington, Indiana: Indiana University, Research Institute for Inner Asian Studies, page 289
Doerfer, Gerhard (1985) Mongolo-Tungusica (in German), Wiesbaden: O. Harrassowitz, page 25
Doerfer, Gerhard (1963) Türkische und mongolische Elemente im Neupersischen [Turkic and Mongolian Elements in New Persian] (Akademie der Wissenschaften und der Literatur: Veröffentlichungen der Orientalischen Kommission; 16)‎^[1] (in German), volume 1, Wiesbaden: Franz Steiner Verlag, pages 168-169
Benzing, Johannes (1955) Die tungusischen Sprachen. Versuch einer vergleichenden Grammatik (Abhandlungen der Geistes- und Sozialwissenschaftlichen Klasse; 11) (in German), Wiesbaden: Verlag der Akademie der Wissenschaften und der Literatur in Mainz in Kommission bei Franz Steiner Verlag, pages 96-97
Cincius, V. I. (1977) Сравнительный словарь тунгусо-маньчжурских языков [Comparative Dictionary of Tungus-Manchu Languages] (in Russian), volume 2, Leningrad: Nauka, pages 245-246
Kane, Daniel (1989) The Sino-Jurchen Vocabulary of the Bureau of Interpreters (Uralic and Altaic Series; vol. 153), Bloomington, Indiana: Research Institute for Inner Asian Studies, Indiana University, →ISBN, page 311.