Reconstruction:Proto-Tungusic/nansa

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

Most of descendants exhibit assimilative change *nansa > *nanza > **nanna, **nanra, **nandra.

Perhaps analyzable as *na- +‎ *-nsa.

The suffix *-nsa possibly denoting nouns related to nature and life forms; compare *xabdansa (“leaf”), *dunse (“earth”) and *sugʒansa (“fish”) etc.

Noun

*nansa

1. human skin

   Synonym: *xerekte

2. animal skin

Declencion

Declension of *nansa

	Singular
Nominative	*nansa
Accusative	*nansaba
Genitive	*nansaŋī
Dative	*nansadua
Locative	*nansala
Ablative	*nansadiki
Prolative	*nansali
Elative	*nansagiʒi
Instrumental	*nansaʒi
Delative	*nansalāki
Directive	*nansatiki
Comitative	*nansagili

Descendants

• Jurchenic:
  • Manchu: ᠨᠣᡨᡥᠣ (notho, “bark of a tree”)
• Tungusic:
  • North Tungusic:
    • Even: нанра (nanra)
    • Evenki: нанна (nanna), нанда (nanda), нанра (nanra), нарна (narna)
    • Negidal: нанда (nanda), нана (nana)
    • Oroqen: nana
    • Solon: nanda
  • South Tungusic:
    • Central:
      • Oroch: наха (naxa), наса (nasa)
      • Udihe: њиа (ńia), нехэ (nexə)
    • South-Eastern:
      • Nanai: нанта (nanta)
      • Orok: ната (nata), натта (natta)
      • Ulch: нанта (nanta)

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 70
• Cincius, V. I. (1975) Сравнительный словарь тунгусо-маньчжурских языков [Comparative Dictionary of Tungus-Manchu Languages] (in Russian), volume 1, Leningrad: Nauka, pages 583-584, 606