Reconstruction:Proto-Tungusic/ŋüi

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

  • *ŋī (per Baek)

Pronoun

*ŋüi

  1. who

Descendants

  • Northern
    • Evenki: ңи (ŋī)
    • Even: [script needed] (ŋī)
    • Negidal: [script needed] (nī), Negidal: [script needed] (ŋī)
    • Solon: ŋīxẽ
  • Central
    • Oroch: [script needed] (ɲī)
    • Udihe: [script needed] (ŋī)
  • South-Eastern
    • Nanai: уй (uj)
    • Orok: [script needed] (ŋui)
    • Ulch: [script needed] (ŋuj), Ulch: [script needed] (uj)
  • South-Western

References

  • 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, page 115
  • Vovin, Alexander, Janhunen, Juha, de la Fuente, José Andrés Alonso (2023) The Tungusic Languages (Routledge Language Family Series), Abingdon: Routledge, page 218
  • Cincius, V. I. (1975) Сравнительный словарь тунгусо-маньчжурских языков [Comparative Dictionary of Tungus-Manchu Languages] (in Russian), volume 1, Leningrad: Nauka, pages 660-661
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