Reconstruction:Proto-Tungusic/gutïn

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

Proto-Tungusic numbers ^(edit)

←  20	30	100  →
	3
Cardinal: *gutïn

Etymology

A number which is not attested in North Tungusic branch. Either a cognate, or borrowed from Mongolic. Compare Proto-Mongolic *gucin (“thirty”), Mongolian гуч (guč). Other Tungusic languages having a campound of three + ten; as in Evenki иландя̄р (ilanʒār), Even иланмяр (ilanmẹr) and Udihe илаʒа (ilaja).

According to Benzing; the numbers 20, 30 and 40 are ultimately of Mongolic origin. Thus, the native Proto-Tungusic numbers might had a campound of “any digit + ten” instead.

Numeral

*gutïn

1. thirty

See also

• *deki (“fourty”)

Descendants

• Jurchenic:
  • Jurchen: 谷失 (gušin /⁠gu-ši⁠/)
    • Manchu: ᡤᡡᠰᡳᠨ (gūsin)
• Tungusic:
  • South Tungusic:
    • Central:
      • Oroch: гути (guti)
    • South-Eastern:
      • Nanai: гочин (gočin)
      • Ulch: гутин (gụtin)

References

• Doerfer, Gerhard (1985) Mongolo-Tungusica (in German), Wiesbaden: O. Harrassowitz, page 152
• 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 102
• 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 364.