Reconstruction:Proto-Tungusic/miaban

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

Alternative Reconstructions

*miāban

Noun

*miaban

heart

Declension

Declension of *miaban

	Singular
Nominative	*miaban
Accusative	*miabanba
Genitive	*miabanŋī
Dative	*miabandua
Locative	*miabanla
Ablative	*miabandiki
Prolative	*miabanli
Elative	*miabangiʒi
Instrumental	*miabanʒi
Delative	*miabanlāki
Directive	*miabantiki
Comitative	*miabangili

Descendants

Jurchenic:
- Jurchen: 捏麻 (niyaman /⁠nie-ma⁠/)
  - Manchu: ᠨᡳᠶᠠᠮᠠᠨ (niyaman)
Tungusic:
- North Tungusic:
  - Even: мявун (mẹwun)
  - Evenki: ме̄ван (mēwan)
  - Negidal: ме̄ван (mēwan)
  - Oroqen: mɛɣan
  - Solon: [script needed] (ḿēɣã, mīɣã)
- South Tungusic:
  - Central:
    - Oroch: мяван (mjawan)
    - Udihe: мява (mjawa)
  - South-Eastern:
    - Nanai: миаван (miawan)
    - Orok: ме̄ван (mēwan)
    - Ulch: ме̄ван (mēwan)

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 40
Cincius, V. I. (1975) Сравнительный словарь тунгусо-маньчжурских языков [Comparative Dictionary of Tungus-Manchu Languages] (in Russian), volume 1, Leningrad: Nauka, pages 533-534
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 316.