Reconstruction:Proto-Tungusic/xulukī

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

  • *xölükī [1]
  • *xölö-

Etymology

From *xulu- +‎ *-kī. The root *xulu- is related to squarrels, as preserved in Evenki улумӣмӣ (ulumīmī, “to hunt squirrels”) which is proposed and reconstructed as *xölömöö- by Janhunen.[2]

*-kī possibly reflects a suffix denoting nouns related to animals; compare *xerekī (“frog”), *turākī (“crow, rook”), *tōkī (“elk”), *torakī (“boar”), *sulakī (“fox”) and etc...

Noun

*xulukī

  1. squirrel

Descendants

  • Jurchenic:
    • Jurchen: 兀魯忽 (ul(u)hu /⁠u-lu-hu⁠/)
  • Tungusic:
    • Northern Tungusic:
      • Even: өрэк (örək), өлики (öliki)
      • Evenki: улукӣ (ulukī)
      • Negidal: олохӣ (oloxī), улукӣ (ulukī), олокӣ (olokī), олукӣ (olukī)
      • ⇒ Oroqen: urkitʃɛn (< *xulukīčēn ?)
    • Southern Tungusic:
      • Central:
        • Oroch: олоки (oloki)
        • Udihe: олохи (oloxi)
      • South-Eastern:

References

  1. ^ 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
  2. ^ Vovin, Alexander, Janhunen, Juha, de la Fuente, José Andrés Alonso (2023) The Tungusic Languages (Routledge Language Family Series), Abingdon: Routledge, page 50
  • Cincius, V. I. (1977) Сравнительный словарь тунгусо-маньчжурских языков [Comparative Dictionary of Tungus-Manchu Languages] (in Russian), volume 2, Leningrad: Nauka, pages 263-264
  • 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 223.
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