Reconstruction:Proto-Tungusic/nāŋsa

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

• *nāŋda (per Benzing)

Reconstruction notes

EDAL reconstructs with *-ŋs- perhaps due to preservation in Negidal and Oroch as -ŋn-, however other descendants clearly reflect *nāŋda.

Noun

*nāŋsa

1. debt

Declension

Declension of *nāŋsa

	Singular
Nominative	*nāŋsa
Accusative	*nāŋsaba
Genitive	*nāŋsaŋī
Dative	*nāŋsadua
Locative	*nāŋsala
Ablative	*nāŋsadiki
Prolative	*nāŋsali
Elative	*nāŋsagiʒi
Instrumental	*nāŋsaʒi
Delative	*nāŋsalāki
Directive	*nāŋsatiki
Comitative	*nāŋsagili

Descendants

• Tungusic:
  • North Tungusic:
    • Even: на̄н (nān) (< *nānda ?)
    • Negidal: на̄ӈна (nāŋna)
  • South Tungusic:
    • Central:
      • Oroch: наӈна (naŋna)
      • Udihe: наӈда (naŋda)
    • South-Eastern:
      • Nanai: наӈда (naŋda)
      • Orok: наӈда (naŋda)
      • Ulch: наӈда (naŋda)

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 37
• Cincius, V. I. (1975) Сравнительный словарь тунгусо-маньчжурских языков (in Russian), volume 1, Leningrad: Nauka, pages 582-583