Reconstruction:Proto-Tungusic/-si

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

Suffix variant of *si (“thou, you”).

Suffix

*-si

  1. second-person singular possessive suffix.
    ‎*gerbǖ (“name”) + ‎*-si → ‎*gerbǖsi (“your name”)
    *Sini gerbǖsi ŋüi? [1]
    What is your name? (Lit. “Who is your name?”)
  2. second-person singular ending of verbs.
    ‎*ičeke (“saw (v.)”) + ‎*-si → ‎*ičekesi (“you saw”)
    ‎*ŋȫnmüče (“to want to say”) + ‎*-si → ‎*ŋȫnmüčesi (“you want to say”)

Derived terms

  • *-nsi (“second-person singular aorist ending”)

See also

  • *-bi (“first-person singular possessive suffix”)
  • *-ni (“third-person singular possessive suffix”)
  • *-bu(n) (“first-person plural possessive suffix”)

Descendants

  • Tungusic:
    • Northern Tungusic:
      • Even: -сэн (-sən), -си (-si)
      • Evenki: -с (-s), -ис (-is)
      • Negidal: -с (-s) [2]
      • Solon: -si
    • Southern Tungusic:
      • Central:
        • Oroch: -си (-si)
        • Udihe: -си (-si)
          • Khor Udihe: -һi (-hi)
      • South-Eastern:

References

  1. ^ Andreas Hölzl (2023) “'What's your name?' in Tungusic and beyond”, in Tungusic languages: Past and present‎[1], page 89
  2. ^ Natalia Aralova & Brigitte Pakendorf (2023) “Non-canonical possessive constructions in Negidal and other Tungusic languages: a new analysis of the so-called “alienable possession” suffix”, in Linguistics: An Interdisciplinary Journal of the Language Sciences‎[2], page 5
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