Reconstruction:Proto-Tungusic/giākun

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

*giaxün (per EDAL)

Etymology

From *giā- +‎ *-kun.

Noun

*giākun

hawk
falcon

Declension

Declension of *giākun

	Singular
Nominative	*giākun
Accusative	*giākunba
Genitive	*giākunŋī
Dative	*giākundua
Locative	*giākunlā
Ablative	*giākundiki
Prolative	*giākunli
Elative	*giākungiʒi
Instrumental	*giākunʒi
Delative	*giākunlāki
Directive	*giākuntiki
Comitative	*giākungili

Derived terms

*giākučān (“diminutive”)

Descendants

Jurchenic:
- Jurchen: 加忽 (giyahun /⁠gia-hu⁠/)
  - Manchu: ᡤᡳᠶᠠᡥᡡᠨ (giyahūn)
Tungusic:
- Northern Tungusic:
  - Even: гякан (gẹkan)
  - Negidal: ге̄хин (gēxin)
- Southern Tungusic:
  - Central:
    - Oroch: гя̄хи (gēxi)
    - Udihe: гяхи (gexi)
  - South-Eastern:
    - Nanai: гихон (gihon)
    - Ulch: ге̄хо(н) (gēxon)

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 67
Cincius, V. I. (1975) Сравнительный словарь тунгусо-маньчжурских языков [Comparative Dictionary of Tungus-Manchu Languages] (in Russian), volume 1, Leningrad: Nauka, page 146
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 220.