Reconstruction:Proto-Tungusic/gora

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

Adjective

*gora

1. far, distant

Derived terms

• *gorapti (“early, soon”)

Descendants

• Jurchenic:
  • Jurchen: golo, 過羅 (go-lo)
    • Manchu: ᡤᠣᡵᠣ (goro)
• Tungusic:
  • North Tungusic:
    • Even: гор (gor)
    • Evenki: горо (goro)
    • Negidal: гойо (gojo)
    • Solon: goro
  • South Tungusic:
    • Central:
      • Oroch: го̄ (gō)
      • Udihe: го̄ло (gōlo)
    • South-Eastern:
      • Nanai: горо (goro)
      • ⇒ Orok: гороло бӣ (gorolo bī)
      • Ulch: горо (goro)

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 99
• Cincius, V. I. (1975) Сравнительный словарь тунгусо-маньчжурских языков (in Russian), volume 1, Leningrad: Nauka, pages 161-162
• 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 166.