Reconstruction:Proto-Tungusic/amŋa

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

Etymology

Considering the similarity with Proto-Mongolic *aman (“mouth”) (Mongolian ам (am)) and *amta- (“to taste”), may explains the stem is *am-.

Some of the descendants exhibit *aŋma through metathesis.

Noun

*amŋa

  1. mouth
  • *amta- (“to taste”)
  • *aŋa (“hole”) (?)

Declension

Declension of *amŋa
Singular
Nominative *amŋa
Accusative *amŋaba
Genitive *amŋaŋī
Dative *amŋadua
Locative *amŋalā
Ablative *amŋadiki
Prolative *amŋali
Elative *amŋagiʒi
Instrumental *amŋaʒi
Delative *amŋalāki
Directive *amŋatiki
Comitative *amŋagili

Descendants

  • Jurchenic: *aŋ(g)a
    • Jurchen: 昂哈 (angga /⁠ang-ha⁠/)
  • Tungusic:

References

  1. ^ 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 38
  2. ^ Vovin, Alexander, Janhunen, Juha, de la Fuente, José Andrés Alonso (2023) The Tungusic Languages (Routledge Language Family Series), Abingdon: Routledge, page 46
  • Cincius, V. I. (1975) Сравнительный словарь тунгусо-маньчжурских языков [Comparative Dictionary of Tungus-Manchu Languages] (in Russian), volume 1, Leningrad: Nauka, pages 38-39
  • 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 315.
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