Reconstruction:Proto-Tungusic/örke

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

*urke (per EDAL)
*orkə (per Knapen)

Etymology

Has been connected to Proto-Nivkh *(kʰ)r̥ə by Knapen.

Noun

*örke

door

Declension

Declension of *örke

	Singular
Nominative	*örke
Accusative	*örkebe
Genitive	*örkeŋī
Dative	*örkedüe
Locative	*örkelē
Ablative	*örkediki
Prolative	*örkeli
Elative	*örkegiʒi
Instrumental	*örkeʒi
Delative	*örkelēki
Directive	*örketiki
Comitative	*örkegili

Descendants

Jurchenic:
- Jurchen: 兀尺 (uce /⁠u-či⁠/)
  - Manchu: ᡠᠴᡝ (uce)
Tungusic:
- Northern Tungusic:
  - Even: уркэ (urkə)
  - Evenki: уркэ (urkə)
  - Negidal: уйкэ (uike)
  - Oroqen: urkə
  - Solon: ukke, urke
- Southern Tungusic:
  - Central:
    - Oroch: уккэ (ukke)
    - Udihe: укэ (uke)
  - South-Eastern:
    - Nanai: уйкэ (ujke)
    - Orok: утэ̄ (utə̄)
    - Ulch: учэ (uče)

References

Martijn G. T. M. Knapen (2021) “The oldest layer of Amuric-Tungusic lexical contacts”, in Diversity Linguistics‎^[1], page 109
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 47-48
Vovin, Alexander, Janhunen, Juha, de la Fuente, José Andrés Alonso (2023) The Tungusic Languages (Routledge Language Family Series), Abingdon: Routledge, page 296
Cincius, V. I. (1977) Сравнительный словарь тунгусо-маньчжурских языков [Comparative Dictionary of Tungus-Manchu Languages] (in Russian), volume 2, Leningrad: Nauka, page 286
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 240.