Reconstruction:Proto-Tungusic/putakān

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

Etymology

Perhaps from earlier *pubta-kān, now can be analyzable as *puta- +‎ -kān. Compare Proto-Mongolic *huxuta, whence Mongolian уут (uut).

Noun

*putakān

1. sack, bag

Descendants

• Jurchen:
  • Literary Manchu: [script needed] (fintaχa)
• Tungusic:
  • North Tungusic:
    • Evenki: [script needed] (hutakān)
      • → Dolgan: Һутака, утака
    • Even: [script needed] (hụtqan)
    • Negidal: [script needed] (xotakān)
  • South Tungusic:
    • Central:
      • Oroch: [script needed] (xuta(ka))
      • Udihe: [script needed] (xut`a)
    • South-Eastern:
      • Nanai: [script needed] (pōtačã)
      • Orok: [script needed] (pụta)
      • Ulch: [script needed] (pụta(n))

References

• Cincius, V. I. (1977) Сравнительный словарь тунгусо-маньчжурских языков [Comparative Dictionary of Tungus-Manchu Languages] (in Russian), volume 2, Leningrad: Nauka, page 356
• Starostin, Sergei, Dybo, Anna, Mudrak, Oleg (2003) “*puta-kān”, in Etymological dictionary of the Altaic languages (Handbuch der Orientalistik; VIII.8), Leiden, New York, Köln: E.J. Brill