Reconstruction:Proto-Tungusic/gerbǖ

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

Noun

*gerbǖ

name

Declension

Declension of *gerbǖ

	Singular
Nominative	*gerbǖ
Accusative	*gerbǖbe
Genitive	*gerbǖŋī
Dative	*gerbǖdüe
Locative	*gerbǖlē
Ablative	*gerbǖdiki
Prolative	*gerbǖli
Elative	*gerbǖgiʒi
Instrumental	*gerbǖʒi
Delative	*gerbǖlēki
Directive	*gerbǖtiki
Comitative	*gerbǖgili

Descendants

Jurchenic:
- Jurchen: 革不 (gebu /⁠ge-bu⁠/)
  - Manchu: ᡤᡝᠪᡠ (gebu)
Tungusic:
- Northern Tungusic:
  - Even: гэ̇рбэ̇ (gə̇rʙə̇)
  - Evenki: гэрбӣ (gərbī)
  - Negidal: гэлби (gelbi)
  - Oroqen: gərbi
  - Solon: gebbi
- Southern Tungusic:
  - Central:
    - Oroch: гэбби (gebbi)
    - Udihe: гэгби (gerbi)
  - South-Eastern:
    - Nanai: гэрбу (gerbu)
    - Orok: гэлбу (gəlbu)
    - Ulch: гэлбу (gelbu)

References

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 49
Cincius, V. I. (1975) Сравнительный словарь тунгусо-маньчжурских языков [Comparative Dictionary of Tungus-Manchu Languages] (in Russian), volume 1, Leningrad: Nauka, pages 180-181
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 366.