Reconstruction:Proto-Tungusic/baka-

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

A possible semantic shift "to look" > "to spot" > "to find" is assumed by Doerfer, which makes him compare this word to Proto-Turkic *bak- (“to look, watch”).[1]

Verb

*baka- (transitive)

  1. to find
  2. to get, obtain
  3. to discover

Descendants

  • Jurchenic:
    • Jurchen: 八哈 (baha- /⁠ba-ha⁠/)
      • Manchu: ᠪᠠᡥᠠᠮᠪᡳ (bahambi)
  • Tungusic:
    • Northern Tungusic:
    • Southern Tungusic:
      • Central:
        • Oroch: бā- (bā-)
        • Udihe: бā- (bā-)
      • South-Eastern:
        • Nanai: ба̄ори (bāori)
        • Orok: ба̄ури (bāuri)
        • Ulch: ба̄ву̇ (bāwụ)

References

  1. ^ Doerfer, Gerhard (1985) Mongolo-Tungusica (in German), Wiesbaden: O. Harrassowitz, page 239
  • 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 28
  • Cincius, V. I. (1975) Сравнительный словарь тунгусо-маньчжурских языков [Comparative Dictionary of Tungus-Manchu Languages] (in Russian), volume 1, Leningrad: Nauka, pages 66-67
  • 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 295.
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