Reconstruction:Proto-Mongolic/küǰüxün
Appearance
Proto-Mongolic
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Perhaps segmentable as *küǰü + *-xün, the latter being a common ending in anatomical terms. As in *terixün (“head”).
Noun
[edit]*küǰüxün
See also
[edit]Descendants
[edit]- Middle Mongol:
- Mongolian: ᠬᠦᠵᠦᠭᠦᠨ (küǰügün)
- Arabic: كوجون (küjün), كوجوون (küjüün), كوجووون (küjüwün) (Muqaddimat)
- Chinese: 苦出文 (kuchuwun) (Beilu Yiyu)
- Mongolian:
- Buryat: хүзүү(н) (xüzüü(n))
- Khamnigan Mongol: күзүү(н)
- Kalmyk: күзүн (küzün)
- Daur: xujuu
- East Yugur: güjüün
- Monguor:
- Bonan: gujung
- Kangjia: güjün
- Dongxiang: ghuzhun, ghuzhen
- Mogholi: kujun, kuzhun
- (?) → Tuvan: күжү (küjü, “nozzle of the bellows”)
References
[edit]- Nugteren, Hans (2011) Mongolic phonology and the Qinghai-Gansu languages (dissertation)[1], Utrecht: LOT, page 435