Reconstruction:Proto-Tungusic/pākun

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

*pākïn (per Fuchs)
*pākin (per EDAL)

Etymology

Analyzable as *pā- +‎ *-kun.

Connected to Proto-Turkic *biagïr (“liver”) by Altaicists but usually not accepted.

The deriving stem is also preserved in some of descendants.

Noun

*pākun

liver

Declension

Declension of *pākun

	Singular
Nominative	*pākun
Accusative	*pākunba
Genitive	*pākunŋī
Dative	*pākundua
Locative	*pākunlā
Ablative	*pākundiki
Prolative	*pākunli
Elative	*pākungiʒi
Instrumental	*pākunʒi
Delative	*pākunlāki
Directive	*pākuntiki
Comitative	*pākungili

Descendants

Jurchenic:
- Jurchen: 發洪 (fahun /⁠fa-hung⁠/)
  - Manchu: ᡶᠠᡥᡡᠨ (fahūn)
Tungusic:
- Northern Tungusic:
  - Even: ха̄кан (hākan)
  - Evenki: хакин (hakin), акин (akin)
  - Negidal: ха̄хин (xāxin), ха̄кин (xākin)
  - Oroqen: a:kin
  - Solon: axin
- Southern Tungusic:
  - Central:
    - Oroch: хаки (xaki)
    - Udihe: х’аи (xˀai)
  - South-Eastern:
    - Nanai: па̄ (pā)
    - Orok: па̄га (pāɣa), па̄ка (pāqa)
    - Ulch: па (pa)

References

Fuchs, Walter, Lopatin, Ivan A., Menges, Karl, Denis, Sinor (1968) Tungusologie (Handbuch der Orientalistik; V.3), Leiden and Köln: Brill, page 137
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. (1977) Сравнительный словарь тунгусо-маньчжурских языков [Comparative Dictionary of Tungus-Manchu Languages] (in Russian), volume 2, Leningrad: Nauka, page 310
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 322.