Reconstruction:Proto-Tungusic/dolba

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

Some of descendants, point on the derived form *dolbanī.

Noun

*dolba

1. night

Declension

Declension of *dolba

	Singular
Nominative	*dolba
Accusative	*dolbaba
Genitive	*dolbaŋī
Dative	*dolbadua
Locative	*dolbala
Ablative	*dolbadiki
Prolative	*dolbali
Elative	*dolbagiʒi
Instrumental	*dolbaʒi
Delative	*dolbalāki
Directive	*dolbatiki
Comitative	*dolbagili

Descendants

• Jurchenic:
  • Jurchen: 多博力 (dobori /⁠do-bo-li⁠/)
    • Manchu: ᡩᠣᠪᠣᡵᡳ (dobori)
• Tungusic:
  • North Tungusic:
    • Even: долба (dolʙa), долбани (dolʙaņi)
    • Evenki: долбонӣ (dolboņī)
    • Negidal: долбо (dolbo), долбон (dolbon), долбонӣ (dolbonī)
    • Oroqen: dɔlbɔ
    • Solon: dolbo
  • South Tungusic:
    • Central:
      • Oroch: доббо (dobbo)
      • Udihe: догбо (dogbo)
    • South-Eastern:
      • Nanai: долбо (dolbo), долбори (dolbori)
      • Orok: долбо (dolbo), долбон’и́ (dolbońí), долбон’н’ие (dolbońńie)
      • Ulch: долбо (dolbo)

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 95
• Cincius, V. I. (1975) Сравнительный словарь тунгусо-маньчжурских языков [Comparative Dictionary of Tungus-Manchu Languages] (in Russian), volume 1, Leningrad: Nauka, pages 213-214
• 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 188.