Reconstruction:Proto-Tungusic/xüyegün

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

*xegün

**Proto-Tungusic numbers ^(edit)**
← 8	9	10 →
Cardinal: *xüyegün

Etymology

Benzing proposes an earlier form *xüyegüen due to reason that the elements *-guan and *-gun used to form numerals.

Numeral

*xüyegün

nine

Descendants

Jurchenic:
- Jurchen: 兀容 (uyun /⁠u-yung⁠/)
  - Manchu: ᡠᠶᡠᠨ (uyun)
Tungusic:
- Northern Tungusic:
  - Even: уюн (ujun)
  - Evenki: егин (jegin)
  - Negidal: ийэғин (ijəɣin)
  - Oroqen: yəyin
  - Solon: yeging
- Southern Tungusic:
  - Central:
    - Oroch: хую(н) (xuju(n))
    - Udihe: ейи (jeji)
  - South-Eastern:
    - Nanai: хуюн (xujun)
    - Orok: хуjу (xuju)
    - Ulch: хую(н) (hụjụn)

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 101
Cincius, V. I. (1975) Сравнительный словарь тунгусо-маньчжурских языков [Comparative Dictionary of Tungus-Manchu Languages] (in Russian), volume 1, Leningrad: Nauka, pages 352-353
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 364.