Reconstruction:Proto-Tungusic/giakin

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

• *giaxün (per EDAL)
• *giākun (per Benzing)

Etymology

Either suffixed with *-kin or *-n.

Noun

*giakin

1. hawk
2. falcon

Declension

Declension of *giakin

	Singular
Nominative	*giakin
Accusative	*giakinba
Genitive	*giakinŋī
Dative	*giakindua
Locative	*giakinla
Ablative	*giakindiki
Prolative	*giakinli
Elative	*giakingiʒi
Instrumental	*giakinʒi
Delative	*giakinlāki
Directive	*giakintiki
Comitative	*giakingili

Descendants

• Jurchenic:
  • Jurchen: 加忽 (giyahun /⁠gia-hu⁠/)
    • Manchu: ᡤᡳᠶᠠᡥᡡᠨ (giyahūn)
• Tungusic:
  • North Tungusic:
    • Even: гякан (gẹkan)
    • Negidal: ге̄хин (gēxin)
  • South Tungusic:
    • Central:
      • Oroch: гя̄хи (gēxi)
      • Udihe: гяхи (gexi)
    • South-Eastern:
      • Nanai: гихон (gixon)
      • Ulch: ге̄хо(н) (gēxon)

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 67
• Cincius, V. I. (1975) Сравнительный словарь тунгусо-маньчжурских языков [Comparative Dictionary of Tungus-Manchu Languages] (in Russian), volume 1, Leningrad: Nauka, page 146
• 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 220.