Reconstruction:Proto-Tungusic/si

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

Compare Proto-Turkic *sẹ (“you”) and Proto-Mongolic *či (“you”). (Can this⁽⁺⁾ etymology be sourced?)

Pronoun

*si

1. you, thou (singular)

Derived terms

• *-si (“second-person singuler possessive suffix”)
• *si-ni (“your”) (genitive)

Descendants

• Northern
  • Evenki: си (si)
  • Even: һӣ (ḥī)
  • Negidal: сӣ (sī)
• Central
  • Oroch: си (si)
  • Udihe: си (si)
• South-Eastern
  • Nanai: си (si)
  • Orok: си (si)
  • Ulch: си (si)
• South-Western
  • Jurchen: ši, 失 (shi /⁠ši⁠/)
    • Manchu: ᠰᡳ (si)

See also

• *suu (“you (pl.)”)

References

• Cincius, V. I. (1977) Сравнительный словарь тунгусо-маньчжурских языков (in Russian), volume 2, Leningrad: Nauka, pages 72-73
• 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 270.