Reconstruction:Proto-Tungusic/-kī

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

Etymology

Has been compared to Proto-Japonic *-ki and Proto-Koreanic *-ki by Robbeets. ^[1]

Suffix

*-kī

animal-forming suffix.

Related terms

*piala-kī (“partridge”)
*pinu-kī (“hazel-hen”)
*saksa-kī (“magpie”)
*sula-kī (“fox”)
*suʒa-kī (“cat”)
*tora-kī (“boar”)
*tuksa-kī (“hare”)
*turā-kī (“crow, rook”)
*tō-kī (“elk”)
*ulgu-kī (“chipmunk”)
*xere-kī (“frog”)
*xulu-kī (“squirrel”)
*ńuŋńa-kī (“goose”)
*ʒele-kī (“ermine”)

References

^ Martine Robbeets (2005) “Is Japanese related to Korean, Tungusic, Mongolic and Turkic?”, in Turcologica 64.‎^[1], page 416