Reconstruction:Proto-Tungusic/ińe-
Proto-Tungusic
Etymology
According to Doerfer, borrowed from Proto-Mongolic *hinixe- (“to laugh”).[1] Compare Mongolian инээх (ineex).
Verb
*ińe- (intransitive)
- to laugh
Derived terms
- *ińekte-
Descendants
- Jurchenic:
- Jurchen: 因者必 (inje- /in-je-bi/)
- Manchu: ᡳᠨᠵᡝᠮᠪᡳ (injembi)
- Jurchen: 因者必 (inje- /in-je-bi/)
- Tungusic:
- Northern Tungusic:
- Even: ининдэ̄й (iņində̄j), инимдэ̄й (iņimdə̄j)
- Evenki: инемӣ (iņemī), инектэдемӣ (iņektəʒemī)
- Negidal: ине- (ińe-)
- Oroqen: iɲə-
- Solon: nekte-
- Southern Tungusic:
- Central:
- Oroch: ине- (ińe-)
- Udihe: инеи- (ińei-)
- South-Eastern:
- Nanai: инэктэури (inekteuri)
- Orok: инэктэвури (inəktəvuri)
- Ulch: инектэву (ińektewu)
- Central:
- Northern Tungusic:
References
- ^ Doerfer, Gerhard (1985) Mongolo-Tungusica (in German), Wiesbaden: O. Harrassowitz, page 23
- Cincius, V. I. (1975) Сравнительный словарь тунгусо-маньчжурских языков [Comparative Dictionary of Tungus-Manchu Languages] (in Russian), volume 1, Leningrad: Nauka, pages 319-320
- 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 289.