Reconstruction:Proto-Mongolic/sirexe

This Proto-Mongolic 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-Mongolic

Etymology

Perhaps related to Karakhanid سَرُو (serü, “shelf”). Compare also Khakas сірирге (sìrirge, “to support”).

Noun

*sirexe

1. table

Descendants

• Middle Mongol: شيره (širẽ)
• Mongolian:
  • Classical Mongolian: ᠰᠢᠷᠡᠭᠡ (sirege)
  • Khalkha Mongolian: ширээ (širee)
  • Ordos: /ʃireː/
• Kalmyk: ширә (şirä)
• Buryat: шэрээ (šeree)
  • Khamnigan Mongol: ширээ, шэрээ, сирөө
• Daur: shiree
• East Yugur: shere
  • → Western Yugur: shire
• Monguor:
  • Mangghuer: shiri
  • Mongghul: xrai
• Dongxiang: shire
• ? Bonan: shile (perhaps from Tibetan ཤིང་ལེབ (shing leb))
• Turkic:
  • → Chagatai: شيره (širä, “little table for serving food”)
    • Uyghur: شىرە (shire)
  • → Ottoman Turkish: شیره (šire)
  • → Shor: шире (“throne”)
  • → Southern Altai: ширее (širee, “throne”)
  • → Tuvan: ширээ (şiree, “table used for special occasions”)
  • → Salar: [script needed] (šira, “table, throne, elevation”)
• Tungusic:
  • → Evenki: ширэ (şirə, “bed”) (Nerchinsk)
  • → Evenki: ширэ̄ (şirə̄)
• → Persian: شیره (šire, “small table”), شیرهچی (šīrečī, “butler”) (from *sirexeci)

References

• Doerfer, Gerhard (1963) Türkische und mongolische Elemente im Neupersischen [Turkic and Mongolian Elements in New Persian] (Akademie der Wissenschaften und der Literatur: Veröffentlichungen der Orientalischen Kommission; 16)‎^[1] (in German), volume 1, Wiesbaden: Franz Steiner Verlag, page 367
• Nugteren, Hans (2011) Mongolic phonology and the Qinghai-Gansu languages (dissertation)‎^[2], Utrecht: LOT, page 497
• Starostin, Sergei, Dybo, Anna, Mudrak, Oleg (2003) Etymological dictionary of the Altaic languages (Handbuch der Orientalistik; VIII.8), Leiden, New York, Köln: E.J. Brill