Reconstruction:Proto-Tungusic/sīlse

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

Perhaps related to Proto-Mongolic *sölsün, *sösün (“gall bladder”).

Noun

*sīlse

gall bladder

Declension

Declension of *sīlse

	Singular
Nominative	*sīlse
Accusative	*sīlsebe
Genitive	*sīlseŋī
Dative	*sīlsedüe
Locative	*sīlselē
Ablative	*sīlsediki
Prolative	*sīlseli
Elative	*sīlsegiʒi
Instrumental	*sīlseʒi
Delative	*sīlselēki
Directive	*sīlsetiki
Comitative	*sīlsegili

Descendants

Jurchenic:
- Jurchen: 失力希 (silhi /⁠ši-li-hi⁠/)
  - Manchu: ᠰᡳᠯᡥᡳ (silhi)
Tungusic:
- Northern Tungusic:
  - Evenki: сӣ (sī)
  - Negidal: силтэ (silte)
  - Solon: sīlde
- Southern Tungusic:
  - Central:
    - Oroch: силэ (sile)
    - Udihe: силиhэ (silihe)
  - South-Eastern:
    - Nanai: силтэ̄ (siltē)
    - Orok: сӣлтэ (sīltə)
    - Ulch: силтэ (silte)

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 46
Cincius, V. I. (1977) Сравнительный словарь тунгусо-маньчжурских языков [Comparative Dictionary of Tungus-Manchu Languages] (in Russian), volume 2, Leningrad: Nauka, page 73
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.
Rozycki, William Vincent (1994) Mongol Elements in Manchu (Uralic and Altaic series; 157), Bloomington, Indiana: Indiana University, Research Institute for Inner Asian Studies, page 238