Reconstruction:Proto-Tungusic/suŋta

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

Adjective

*suŋta

deep

Descendants

Jurchenic: < *suŋmin (?)
- Jurchen: 說迷 (šumin /⁠šo-mi⁠/)
  - Manchu: ᡧᡠᠮᡳᠨ (šumin)
Tungusic:
- Northern Tungusic:
  - Even: хӯнта (hūnta)
  - Evenki: суӈта (suŋta)
  - Negidal: соӈта (soŋta)
  - Oroqen: ʃʊŋta
  - Solon: sụ̄nta
- Southern Tungusic:
  - Central:
    - Oroch: сунта (sunta)
    - Udihe: сунта (sunta)
  - South-Eastern:
    - Nanai: соӈта (soŋta)
    - Orok: сукта (sukta)
    - Ulch: су̇ӈта (sụŋta)

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 37
Cincius, V. I. (1977) Сравнительный словарь тунгусо-маньчжурских языков [Comparative Dictionary of Tungus-Manchu Languages] (in Russian), volume 2, Leningrad: Nauka, page 128
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 166.