Reconstruction:Proto-Tungusic/xüye

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

Noun

*xüye

  1. horn (of animals)

Declension

Descendants

  • Jurchenic:
    • Jurchen: 未黑 (weihe, uihe /⁠wei-he⁠/)
  • Tungusic:
    • Northern Tungusic:
      • Even: ӣй (īj)
      • Evenki: ие (ije)
      • Negidal: ӣйэ (īje)
      • Oroqen: i:gə, i:yə
      • Solon: īje
    • Southern Tungusic:
      • Central:
        • Oroch: ийэ (ije)
        • Udihe: йэ̄ ()
      • South-Eastern:
        • Nanai: хуе (huje)
        • Orok: хуйэ (xuje)
        • Ulch: хуйэ (xuje)

References

  • Cincius, V. I. (1975) Сравнительный словарь тунгусо-маньчжурских языков [Comparative Dictionary of Tungus-Manchu Languages] (in Russian), volume 1, Leningrad: Nauka, pages 298-299
  • 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 230.
  • Doerfer, Gerhard, Knüppel, Michael (2004) Etymologisch-ethnologisches Wörterbuch tungusischer Dialekte, Hildesheim: Olms, page 386