Reconstruction:Proto-Tungusic/sēkse

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

The derived stem is *sēg-, which is also preserved in Negidal сэ̄- (sē-, “to bleed, flow (of blood)”).

Possibly blended with the *-k-sa suffix.

Noun

*sēkse

blood

Declension

Declension of *sēkse

	Singular
Nominative	*sēkse
Accusative	*sēksebe
Genitive	*sēkseŋī
Dative	*sēksedüe
Locative	*sēkselē
Ablative	*sēksediki
Prolative	*sēkseli
Elative	*sēksegiʒi
Instrumental	*sēkseʒi
Delative	*sēkselēki
Directive	*sēksetiki
Comitative	*sēksegili

Descendants

Jurchenic:
- Jurchen: 生吉 (senggi /⁠šeng-gi⁠/)
  - Manchu: ᠰᡝᠩᡤᡳ (senggi)
Tungusic:
- Northern Tungusic:
  - Even: һэ̄с (ḥə̄s)
  - Evenki: сэ̄ксэ (sə̄ksə)
  - Negidal: сэ̄ксэ (sēkse)
  - Oroqen: ʃə꞉kʃə
  - Solon: sēkče
- Southern Tungusic:
  - Central:
    - Oroch: сэ̄ксэ (sēkse)
    - Udihe: [script needed] (sakeä)
  - South-Eastern:
    - Nanai: сэксэ (sekse)
    - Orok: сэксэ (sekse)
    - Ulch: сэ̄ксэ (sēkse)

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 18
Cincius, V. I. (1977) Сравнительный словарь тунгусо-маньчжурских языков [Comparative Dictionary of Tungus-Manchu Languages] (in Russian), volume 2, Leningrad: Nauka, pages 136, 138-139
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.