Reconstruction:Proto-Tungusic/ŋindakin

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

Etymology

From *ŋinda +‎ *-kin.

Noun

*ŋindakin

1. dog

Declension

Declension of *ŋindakin

	Singular
Nominative	*ŋindakin
Accusative	*ŋindakinba
Genitive	*ŋindakinŋī
Dative	*ŋindakindua
Locative	*ŋindakinla
Ablative	*ŋindakindiki
Prolative	*ŋindakinli
Elative	*ŋindakingiʒi
Instrumental	*ŋindakinʒi
Delative	*ŋindakinlāki
Directive	*ŋindakintiki
Comitative	*ŋindakingili

Descendants

• Jurchenic:
  • Jurchen: 因荅忽 (indahun /⁠in-da-hun⁠/)
    • Manchu: ᡳᠨᡩᠠᡥᡡᠨ (indahūn)
• Tungusic:
  • North Tungusic:
    • Evenki: ӈинакин (ŋinakin)
    • Even: ӈи̇н (ŋi̇n)
    • Negidal: ни̇нахи̇н (nịnaxịn), ӈи̇нахи̇н (ŋịnaxịn)
    • Oroqen: ŋinaɣɪn
  • South Tungusic:
    • Central:
      • Oroch: инаки (inaki)
      • Udihe: инʼаи (inˀai)
    • South-Eastern:
      • Nanai: и̇нда (ịnda)
      • Orok: ӈинда (ŋịnda)
      • Ulch: и̇ӈда (ịŋda)

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 67
• Cincius, V. I. (1975) Сравнительный словарь тунгусо-маньчжурских языков [Comparative Dictionary of Tungus-Manchu Languages] (in Russian), volume 1, Leningrad: Nauka, pages 661-662
• 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 216.