Reconstruction:Proto-Tungusic/kačikān

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

From *kači +‎ *-kān (“diminutive suffix”).

Noun

*kačikān

  1. puppy

Descendants

  • Tungusic:
    • Northern Tungusic:
      • Evenki: кача (kaça)
      • Even: качикан (kacikan)
      • Negidal: [script needed] (kačịxān)
    • Southern Tungusic:
      • Central:
      • South-Eastern:
        • Nanai: [script needed] (kejče(kẽ))
        • Orok: [script needed] (kēčike)
        • Ulch:

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 35
  • Cincius, V. I. (1975) Сравнительный словарь тунгусо-маньчжурских языков [Comparative Dictionary of Tungus-Manchu Languages] (in Russian), volume 1, Leningrad: Nauka, page 385
  • Starostin, Sergei, Dybo, Anna, Mudrak, Oleg (2003) “*kači-kān”, in Etymological dictionary of the Altaic languages (Handbuch der Orientalistik; VIII.8), Leiden, New York, Köln: E.J. Brill
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