Reconstruction:Proto-Tungusic/biaga

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

*biaga

Alternative Reconstructions

• *bēga, *biāga

Etymology

Perhaps related and cognate to *biagun (“earth”).

Noun

*biaga

1. moon

Declension

Declension of *biaga

	Singular
Nominative	*biaga
Accusative	*biagaba
Genitive	*biagaŋī
Dative	*biagadua
Locative	*biagala
Ablative	*biagadiki
Prolative	*biagali
Elative	*biagagiʒi
Instrumental	*biagaʒi
Delative	*biagalāki
Directive	*biagatiki
Comitative	*biagagili

See also

• *sigūn (“sun”)

Descendants

• Jurchenic:
  • Jurchen: 别阿 (biya /⁠bie-a⁠/) (or 別阿)
    • Manchu: ᠪᡳᠶᠠ (biya)
• Tungusic:
  • North Tungusic:
    • Even: бя̄г (ʙẹ̄g)
    • Evenki: бе̄га (bēga)
    • Negidal: бе̄ға (bēɣa)
    • Oroqen: bɛ꞉
    • Solon: [script needed] (bē̂ɣa)
  • South Tungusic:
    • Central:
      • Oroch: бя (bja)
      • Udihe: биа (bia)
    • South-Eastern:
      • Nanai: биа (bia)
      • Orok: бе̄ (bē), bē
      • Ulch: бе̄ (bē)

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 30
• Cincius, V. I. (1975) Сравнительный словарь тунгусо-маньчжурских языков (in Russian), volume 1, Leningrad: Nauka, pages 78-79
• 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 135.