Reconstruction:Proto-Tungusic/šig-

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

Compared to Proto-Turkic *sogï- (“to cool, get cold”), whence Turkish soğumak (“to cold, get cold”). Also compared to Korean 식다 (sikda, “to cold off”), by Altaicists. (Can this⁽⁺⁾ etymology be sourced?)

Verb

*šig-

1. to get cold, freeze
2. to cold

Descendants

• Jurchen: siuŋhun
  • Literary Manchu: [script needed] (šahurun)
    • Manchu: ᡧᠠᡥᡠᡵᡠᠨ (šahurun)
• Tungusic:
  • North Tungusic:
    • Evenki: [script needed] (čig-)

References

• Cincius, V. I. (1977) Сравнительный словарь тунгусо-маньчжурских языков [Comparative Dictionary of Tungus-Manchu Languages] (in Russian), volume 2, Leningrad: Nauka, pages 389, 423
• Starostin, Sergei, Dybo, Anna, Mudrak, Oleg (2003) “*šig-”, in Etymological dictionary of the Altaic languages (Handbuch der Orientalistik; VIII.8), Leiden, New York, Köln: E.J. Brill