Reconstruction:Proto-Tungusic/xolsa

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

Compared with Proto-Uralic *kala (Finnish kala, Hungarian hal).

Noun

*xolsa

  1. fish

Descendants

  • Northern
    • Even: олра̇ (olrȧ)
    • Evenki: олло (ollo)
    • Oroqen: ɔlɔ
    • Negidal: оло
  • Central
  • South-Eastern:

References

  • Fuchs, Walter, Lopatin, Ivan A., Menges, Karl, Denis, Sinor (1968) Tungusologie (Handbuch der Orientalistik; V.3), Leiden and Köln: Brill, page 134
  • 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 69
  • Cincius, V. I. (1977) Сравнительный словарь тунгусо-маньчжурских языков [Comparative Dictionary of Tungus-Manchu Languages] (in Russian), volume 2, Leningrad: Nauka, page 14
  • Cincius, V. I. (1945) Sravnitelʹnaja fonetika tunguso-manʹčžurskix jazykov [Comparative Phonology of Tungus-Manchu Languages] (in Russian), Leningrad: UčPedGiz, page 198