Reconstruction:Proto-Tungusic/ʒūg

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

*ǯīb (per EDAL)

Noun

*ʒūg

house, dwelling (yurt, chum, tipi etc...)

Declension

Declension of *ʒūg

	Singular
Nominative	*ʒūg
Accusative	*ʒūgba
Genitive	*ʒūgŋī
Dative	*ʒūgdua
Locative	*ʒūglā
Ablative	*ʒūgdiki
Prolative	*ʒūgli
Elative	*ʒūggiʒi
Instrumental	*ʒūgʒi
Delative	*ʒūglāki
Directive	*ʒūgtiki
Comitative	*ʒūggili

Derived terms

*ʒūgkān (“a little house”) (dim.)

Descendants

Tungusic:
- Northern Tungusic:
  - Even: дю̄ (ʒū)
  - Evenki: дю̄ (ʒū)
  - Negidal: ӡо̄ (ʒō)
  - Oroqen: dʒu:
  - Solon: ʒūɣ
- Southern Tungusic:
  - Central:
    - Oroch: дю (ʒu)
    - Udihe: ӡугди (ʒugdi)
  - South-Eastern:
    - Nanai: дё̄ (ʒō)
    - Orok: ду́ку́ (dúkú), ду́ху́ (dúhú)
    - Ulch: дю̄ (ʒū)

References

Vovin, Alexander, Janhunen, Juha, de la Fuente, José Andrés Alonso (2023) The Tungusic Languages (Routledge Language Family Series), Abingdon: Routledge
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 31
Cincius, V. I. (1975) Сравнительный словарь тунгусо-маньчжурских языков [Comparative Dictionary of Tungus-Manchu Languages] (in Russian), volume 1, Leningrad: Nauka, pages 266-267