Reconstruction:Proto-Tungusic/xōsikta

See also: Reconstruction:Proto-Tungusic/xosikta

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

Etymology

From *xōsi- +‎ *-kta. The first element has been compared to Japanese 星 (hoshi) (which is from Proto-Japonic *pəsi) by Fuchs, however they are most likely not related.

Noun

*xōsikta

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Descendants

Jurchenic:
- Jurchen: oʃïxa, 兀矢哈 (ošiha /⁠u-ši-ha⁠/)
  - Manchu: ᡠᠰᡳᡥᠠ (usiha)
Tungusic:
- Northern Tungusic:
  - Even: о̄сикат (ōsikat) (<*xōsikākta)
  - Evenki: о̄сикта (ōsikta), о̄сика̄кта (ōsikākta)
  - Negidal: о̄сикта (ōsikta)
  - Oroqen: ɔʃɪkta
  - Solon: ōšikta
- Southern Tungusic:
  - Central:
    - Oroch: хосикта (xosikta)
    - Udihe: ва̂икта (wáikta)
  - South-Eastern:
    - Nanai: хосикта (xosikta)
    - Orok: васи́кта (wasíkta)
    - Ulch: хоста (xosta), ху̇ста (xu̇sta)

References

Fuchs, Walter, Lopatin, Ivan A., Menges, Karl, Denis, Sinor (1968) Tungusologie (Handbuch der Orientalistik; V.3), Leiden and Köln: Brill, page 55
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 23
Cincius, V. I. (1977) Сравнительный словарь тунгусо-маньчжурских языков [Comparative Dictionary of Tungus-Manchu Languages] (in Russian), volume 2, Leningrad: Nauka, page 27
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 136.