Reconstruction:Proto-Tungusic/ńārī

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

Alternative Reconstructions

• *ń(i)ari (per EDAL)
• *ńaira (per Cincius)

Noun

*ńārī

1. man
2. person
3. young man

Declension

Declension of *ńārī

	Singular
Nominative	*ńārī
Accusative	*ńārība
Genitive	*ńārīŋī
Dative	*ńārīdua
Locative	*ńārīla
Ablative	*ńārīdiki
Prolative	*ńārīli
Elative	*ńārīgiʒi
Instrumental	*ńārīʒi
Delative	*ńārīlāki
Directive	*ńārītiki
Comitative	*ńārīgili

Derived terms

• *ńārabī
  • Jurchenic:
    • Bala: 纳莫 (namo)
    • Jurchen: 捏麻 (niyarma /⁠nie-ma⁠/)
      • Manchu: ᠨᡳᠶᠠᠯᠮᠠ (niyalma)
    • Kyakala: 纳莫 (namo)
  • Tungusic:
    • North Tungusic:
      • Evenki: нирави (ņirawi)
      • Negidal: нье̄йавӣ (ńējawī)

Descendants

• Tungusic:
  • North Tungusic:
    • Even: няри (ņari)
    • Oroqen: ɲɪray
    • Solon: nirō
  • South Tungusic:
    • Central:
      • Oroch: ньӣ (ńī)
      • Udihe: нӣ (nī)
    • South-Eastern:
      • Nanai: най (naj)
      • Orok: нари (nari)
      • Ulch: н’ӣ (ńī)

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 38
• Cincius, V. I. (1975) Сравнительный словарь тунгусо-маньчжурских языков (in Russian), volume 1, Leningrad: Nauka, pages 598-599
• 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 265.