Reconstruction:Proto-Tungusic/ińe-

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

According to Doerfer, borrowed from Proto-Mongolic *hinixe- (to laugh).[1] Compare Mongolian инээх (ineex).

Verb

*ińe- (intransitive)

  1. to laugh

Derived terms

  • *ińekte-

Descendants

  • Jurchenic:
    • Jurchen: 因者必 (inje- /⁠in-je-bi⁠/)
  • Tungusic:
    • Northern Tungusic:
    • Southern Tungusic:
      • Central:
        • Oroch: ине- (ińe-)
        • Udihe: инеи- (ińei-)
      • South-Eastern:
        • Nanai: инэктэури (inekteuri)
        • Orok: инэктэвури (inəktəvuri)
        • Ulch: инектэву (ińektewu)

References

  1. ^ 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.