Reconstruction:Proto-Tungusic/xörge

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

*xörge

  1. heavy

Descendants

  • Jurchenic:
    • Jurchen: 兀者 (ujen /⁠u-je⁠/)
  • Tungusic:
    • Northern Tungusic:
      • Even: ургэ (urgə)
      • Evenki: ургэ (urgə)
      • Negidal: уйгэгди (ujgegdi)
      • Oroqen: urgə
      • Solon: uggerdi
    • Southern Tungusic:
      • Central:
        • Oroch: уггэ (ugge)
        • Udihe: угэйи (ugeji)
      • South-Eastern:
        • Nanai: хуйгэ (hujge)
        • Orok: худэ̄ (xudē)
        • Ulch: худеули (xuʒeuli)

References

  • Vovin, Alexander, Janhunen, Juha, de la Fuente, José Andrés Alonso (2023) The Tungusic Languages (Routledge Language Family Series), Abingdon: Routledge, page 44
  • 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 42
  • Cincius, V. I. (1977) Сравнительный словарь тунгусо-маньчжурских языков [Comparative Dictionary of Tungus-Manchu Languages] (in Russian), volume 2, Leningrad: Nauka, pages 283-284
  • 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 149.