Reconstruction:Proto-Tungusic/amŋa

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

• *aŋma

Etymology

Considering similarity to Proto-Mongolic *aman (“mouth”) (Mongolian ам (am)) and *amta- (“to taste”), may have explains the stem is *am-.

Noun

*amŋa

1. mouth

Related terms

• *amta- (“to taste”)
• *aŋa (“hole”) (?)

Declension

Declension of *amŋa

	Singular
Nominative	*amŋa
Accusative	*amŋaba
Genitive	*amŋaŋī
Dative	*amŋadua
Locative	*amŋala
Ablative	*amŋadiki
Prolative	*amŋali
Elative	*amŋagiʒi
Instrumental	*amŋaʒi
Delative	*amŋalāki
Directive	*amŋatiki
Comitative	*amŋagili

Descendants

• Jurchenic:
  • Jurchen: 昂哈 (angga /⁠ang-ha⁠/)
    • Manchu: ᠠᠩᡤᠠ (angga)
• Tungusic:
  • North Tungusic:
    • Even: амӈа̇ (amŋȧ), амӈа (amŋa)
    • Evenki: амӈа (amŋa)
    • Negidal: амӈа (amŋa)
    • Oroqen: amŋa
  • South Tungusic:
    • Central:
      • Oroch: амма (amma)
      • Udihe: аӈма (aŋma)
    • South-Eastern:
      • Nanai: аӈма (aŋma)
      • Orok: аӈма (aŋma), амӈа (amŋa)
      • Ulch: аӈма (aŋma)

References

• Cincius, V. I. (1975) Сравнительный словарь тунгусо-маньчжурских языков (in Russian), volume 1, Leningrad: Nauka, pages 38-39
• 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 315.