Reconstruction:Proto-Tungusic/pūpūn

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

• *pubin
• *pubu-
  • *pubupun
• *pụụ-
  • *pụụpOOn

Etymology

Derived from *pupu- (“to saw”) +‎ *-pūn. However, the expected form would be such *pu(b/p)upūn rather than *pūpūn. According to EDAL, the existing form reflect the verbal stem *pubu- and the derived noun *pubu-pu(n) (with some later confusion because of the loss of *-b-).

Almost all of the descendants obviously reflect *pūpūn or *pūbūn. There are also descendants who preserved the stem *pū-.

Compare also Proto-Nivkh *puv- (“saw”) (Whence Nivkh пʼуф (pʼuf)), likely a Tungusic borrowing.

Noun

*pūpūn

1. saw

Declension

Declension of *pūpūn

	Singular
Nominative	*pūpūn
Accusative	*pūpūnba
Genitive	*pūpūnŋī
Dative	*pūpūndua
Locative	*pūpūnla
Ablative	*pūpūndiki
Prolative	*pūpūnli
Elative	*pūpūngiʒi
Instrumental	*pūpūnʒi
Delative	*pūpūnlāki
Directive	*pūpūntiki
Comitative	*pūpūngili

Related terms

• *pupumsa (“sawdust”)

Descendants

• Jurchenic:
  • Jurchen: 伏黑 (fufun /⁠fu-fung⁠/)
    • Manchu: ᡶ᠋ᡠᡶ᠋ᡠᠨ (fufun)
• Tungusic:
  • North Tungusic:
    • Even: хӯнакич (hūnakic), хӯнавун (hūnawun) (< *pūnapūn)
    • Evenki: хӯвӯн (hūwūn)
    • Negidal: ховун (howun)
    • Oroqen: u:n
    • Solon: ugin, ogin
  • South Tungusic:
    • Central:
      • Oroch: хӯ (xū)
      • Udihe: ху (xu)
    • South-Eastern:
      • Nanai: попон (popon)
      • Orok: пу́пу́(н) (pụpụ(n))
      • Ulch: пӯпу(н) (pūpu(n))

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 63
• Cincius, V. I. (1977) Сравнительный словарь тунгусо-маньчжурских языков [Comparative Dictionary of Tungus-Manchu Languages] (in Russian), volume 2, Leningrad: Nauka, page 336
• 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 252.