Reconstruction:Proto-Tungusic/iāsa

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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[edit]

Alternative Reconstructions[edit]

Reconstruction notes[edit]

Even нёӈэти (ņoŋəti), нөӈэти (nöŋəti, one-eyed) and Negidal [script needed] (ńuińaki, eyebrow) supports an initial *ń-, and also pointing perhaps to a derivative *ńiā-ŋu- with later assimilations > *ńūŋu- ~ *ńūńu-.

Etymology[edit]

Some of descendants, reflect the plural form *iāsa-l, according to Benzing. [1]

Noun[edit]

*iāsa

  1. eye

Declension[edit]

Descendants[edit]

  • Jurchenic:
    • Jurchen: [Han needed] (yasa /⁠ya-sa⁠/)
  • Tungusic:

References[edit]

  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 25
  • Cincius, V. I. (1975) Сравнительный словарь тунгусо-маньчжурских языков [Comparative Dictionary of Tungus-Manchu Languages] (in Russian), volume 1, Leningrad: Nauka, pages 291-292
  • 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 314.