Reconstruction:Proto-Tungusic/ŋōlimi

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

• *ŋōlmi

Etymology

From *ŋōli- +‎ *-mi (“adjective-forming suffix”).

Adjective

*ŋōlimi

1. long

Descendants

• Jurchenic:
  • Jurchen: 過迷 (golmin /⁠go-mi⁠/)
    • Manchu: ᡤᠣᠯᠮᡳᠨ (golmin)
• Tungusic:
  • North Tungusic:
    • Even: ӈона̇м (ŋonȧm)
    • Evenki: ӈо̄ним (ŋōņim)
    • Negidal: ӈоном (ŋonom)
    • Oroqen: ŋʊnʊm
    • Solon: ninomi
  • South Tungusic:
    • Central:
      • Oroch: ӈо̄ними (ŋōnimi)
      • Udihe: ваними̂ (walmí)
    • South-Eastern:
      • Nanai: ӈонэмэ (ŋoneme)
      • Orok: ӈоними (ŋonimi)
      • Ulch: валми̇ (walmị), волми̇ (wolmị), ӈолми̇ (ŋolmị)

References

• Fuchs, Walter, Lopatin, Ivan A., Menges, Karl, Denis, Sinor (1968) Tungusologie (Handbuch der Orientalistik; V.3), Leiden and Köln: Brill, page 251
• 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 46
• Cincius, V. I. (1975) Сравнительный словарь тунгусо-маньчжурских языков [Comparative Dictionary of Tungus-Manchu Languages] (in Russian), volume 1, Leningrad: Nauka, pages 664-665
• 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 165.