Reconstruction:Proto-Mongolic/kurïgan
Appearance
Proto-Mongolic
[edit]Reconstruction
[edit]Some forms derive from syncopated *kurgan, lowering of the middle vowel in Muqaddimat is unexplained.
Etymology
[edit]From Proto-Turkic *koŕï + *-gan, see Turkish kuzu.
Noun
[edit]*kurïgan
Hypernyms
[edit]Descendants
[edit]- Middle Mongol:
- Arabic: قوراغان (quraγan), قولاغان (qulaγan) (Muqaddimat), قريْغان (quriγan) (Leiden manuscript)
- Armenian: ղուրղան (łurłan) (Kirakos Gandzaketsi)
- Chinese: 忽兩案) (quriγan) (Beilu Yiyu), [script needed] (quriqa(n)) (Secret History)
- Mongolian:
- Buryat: хурьга(н) (xurʹga(n))
- Khamnigan Mongol: xuriga(n), xurigu(n)
- Kalmyk: хурһн (xurğn)
- East Yugur: xurghan
- Monguor:
- Mangghuer: khuerghuer
- Mongghul: hurigha
- Bonan: ghurghang, xurghang
- Kangjia: ghurghun
- Dongxiang: ghugvan
- Mogholi: qurghan, qorghan
- → Southern Altai: кураган (kuragan)
- → Evenki: курка̄н (kurkān) (Nerchinsk)
- → Jurchen: houo-li-han
Further reading
[edit]- Nugteren, Hans (2011) Mongolic phonology and the Qinghai-Gansu languages (dissertation)[1], Utrecht: LOT, page 433
- Doerfer, Gerhard (1985) Mongolo-Tungusica (in German), Wiesbaden: O. Harrassowitz, page 131