Reconstruction:Proto-Tungusic/dirami

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

Adjective

*dirami

1. thick

Descendants

• Jurchenic:
  • Jurchen: 的剌迷 (jiramin /⁠di-la-mi⁠/)
    • Manchu: ᠵᡳᡵᠠᠮᡳᠨ (jiramin)
• Tungusic:
  • North Tungusic:
    • Even: дыра̇м (dirȧm)
    • Evenki: дырам (diram)
    • Negidal: дейам (dejam)
    • Oroqen: diram
    • Solon: dirami
  • South Tungusic:
    • Central:
      • Oroch: диями (dijami)
      • Udihe: диа̂ми (diami)
    • South-Eastern:
      • Nanai: дирами (dirami)
      • Orok: ӡи́рами (ʒírami)
      • Ulch: ди̇рами̇ (dirami)

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 32
• Cincius, V. I. (1975) Сравнительный словарь тунгусо-маньчжурских языков [Comparative Dictionary of Tungus-Manchu Languages] (in Russian), volume 1, Leningrad: Nauka, pages 207-208
• 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.