Reconstruction:Proto-Tungusic/pūpūn

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

  • *pubin
  • *pubu-
    • *pubupun
  • *pụụ- [1]
    • *pụụpOOn
  • *puupoo/n (per Janhunen) [2]

Etymology

Derived from *pupu- (“to saw”) +‎ *-pūn. However, the expected form would be such *pu(b/p)upūn rather than *pūpūn. According to EDAL, the existing form reflect the verbal stem *pubu- and the derived noun *pubu-pu(n) (with some later confusion because of the loss of *-b-).

Almost all of the descendants obviously reflect *pūpūn or *pūbūn. There are also descendants who preserved the stem *pū-.

Compare also Proto-Nivkh [3] *puv- (“saw”) (Whence Nivkh пʼуф (pʼuf)), likely a Tungusic borrowing.

Noun

*pūpūn

  1. saw

Declension

Declension of *pūpūn
Singular
Nominative *pūpūn
Accusative *pūpūnba
Genitive *pūpūnŋī
Dative *pūpūndua
Locative *pūpūnlā
Ablative *pūpūndiki
Prolative *pūpūnli
Elative *pūpūngiʒi
Instrumental *pūpūnʒi
Delative *pūpūnlāki
Directive *pūpūntiki
Comitative *pūpūngili

Descendants

  • Jurchenic:
    • Jurchen: 伏黑 (fufun /⁠fu-fung⁠/)
  • Tungusic:
    • Northern Tungusic:
      • Even: хӯнакич (hūnakic), хӯнавун (hūnawun) (< *pūnapūn)
      • Evenki: хӯвӯн (hūwūn)
      • Negidal: ховун (howun)
      • Oroqen: u:n
      • Solon: ugin, ogin
    • Southern Tungusic:
      • Central:
        • Oroch: хӯ (xū)
        • Udihe: ху (xu)
      • South-Eastern:
        • Nanai: попон (popon)
        • Orok: пу́пу́(н) (púpú(n))
        • Ulch: пӯпу(н) (pūpu(n))

References

  1. ^ Martijn G. T. M. Knapen (2021) “The oldest layer of Amuric-Tungusic lexical contacts”, in Diversity Linguistics‎[1]
  2. ^ Vovin, Alexander, Janhunen, Juha, de la Fuente, José Andrés Alonso (2023) The Tungusic Languages (Routledge Language Family Series), Abingdon: Routledge, page 49
  3. ^ Fortescue, Michael (2016) Comparative Nivkh Dictionary, München: LINCOM, page 190
  • 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 63
  • Cincius, V. I. (1977) Сравнительный словарь тунгусо-маньчжурских языков [Comparative Dictionary of Tungus-Manchu Languages] (in Russian), volume 2, Leningrad: Nauka, page 336
  • 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 252.
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