Reconstruction:Proto-Tungusic/oran

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

Alternatively linked by Starostin et al. with Mongolian оронго (orongo, “a kind of antelope”) and Khakas орғы (orğı, “hybrid of moose and maral”) (with their respective cognates).

According to Janhunen, considering that only the speakers of Evenki, Even and Negidal are known to have been actively engaged in reindeer breeding, it is possible that the speakers of the other languages have adopted this word by internal borrowing. At the same time, the speakers of Oroks, whose economic adaptation does comprise reindeer breeding, seem to have lost this word, replacing it by ulaa < PTg. *ulaga, an obscure item otherwise attested only in Oroch ула (ula), though possibly connected with Manchu ᡠᠯᡥᠠ (ulha, “domestic animal”) (< *ulaga).[1]

Noun

*oran (plural *orar)

  1. reindeer

Descendants

  • Northern
    • Even: ора̇н (orȧn)
    • Evenki: орон (oron)
    • Negidal: ойон (ojon)
    • Oroqen: ɔrɔn
  • Central
  • South-Eastern:
  • South-Western:

References

  1. ^ Vovin, Alexander, Janhunen, Juha, de la Fuente, José Andrés Alonso (2023) The Tungusic Languages (Routledge Language Family Series), Abingdon: Routledge, page 72
  • Cincius, V. I. (1977) Сравнительный словарь тунгусо-маньчжурских языков [Comparative Dictionary of Tungus-Manchu Languages] (in Russian), volume 2, Leningrad: Nauka, pages 24-25
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