Reconstruction:Proto-Tungusic/tüki-

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

  • *tükü-

Etymology

Perhaps related to *tügde- (“to rain”).

Verb

*tüki- (intransitive)

  1. to fall, drop (of water)

Descendants

  • Jurchenic:
    • Jurchen: 秃黑 (tuhe- /⁠tu-he⁠/)
  • Tungusic:
    • Northern Tungusic:
      • Even: тиктэ̄й (tiktə̄j)
      • Evenki: тикмӣ (tikmī)
      • Negidal: тик- (tik-)
      • Oroqen: tik-
      • Solon: tiki-
    • Southern Tungusic:
      • Central:
        • Oroch: тӣ- (tī-)
      • South-Eastern:
        • Nanai: тӯвури (tūwuri)
        • Orok: тӯккивури (tūkkivuri), туккувури (tukkuvuri)
        • Ulch: тукуву (tukuwu)

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 28
  • Cincius, V. I. (1977) Сравнительный словарь тунгусо-маньчжурских языков [Comparative Dictionary of Tungus-Manchu Languages] (in Russian), volume 2, Leningrad: Nauka, page 175
  • 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 140.
  • Doerfer, Gerhard, Knüppel, Michael (2004) Etymologisch-ethnologisches Wörterbuch tungusischer Dialekte, Hildesheim: Olms, page 783
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