Reconstruction:Proto-Tungusic/gūn-

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

  • *gȫn(i)- [1]
  • *ŋȫn- (per Benzing)

Verb

*gūn-

  1. (transitive) to say
  2. (transitive) to think

Derived terms

  • *-gi(-ni)

Descendants

  • Jurchenic:
    • Jurchen: 恨都 (hendu- /⁠hen-du⁠/)
  • Tungusic:
    • Northern Tungusic:
      • Even: гө̄ндэй (gȫndəj)
      • Evenki: гунмӣ (gunmī)
      • Negidal: гӯн- (gūn-)
      • Oroqen: gun-
      • Solon: gun-
    • Southern Tungusic:
      • Central:
        • Oroch: гун- (gun-)
        • Udihe: гунэ- (gune-)

References

  1. ^ José Andrés Alonso de la Fuente (2012) “The first imperative of Tungusic”, in Studia Linguistica Universitatis Iagellonicae Cracoviensis‎[1], page 11
  • 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 24
  • Cincius, V. I. (1975) Сравнительный словарь тунгусо-маньчжурских языков [Comparative Dictionary of Tungus-Manchu Languages] (in Russian), volume 1, Leningrad: Nauka, page 171
  • 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 290.
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