Reconstruction:Proto-Tungusic/xulukī

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

• *xölükī

Etymology

From *xulu- +‎ *-kī.

*-kī possibly reflects a suffix denoting nouns related to animals; compare *xerekī (“frog”), *turakī (“crow, rook”), *tōkī (“elk”), *torakī (“boar”), *sulakī (“fox”) and etc...

Noun

*xulukī

1. squirrel

Descendants

• Jurchenic:
  • Jurchen: 兀魯忽 (ul(u)hu /⁠u-lu-hu⁠/)
    • Manchu: ᡠᠯᡥᡠ (ulhu)
• Tungusic:
  • North Tungusic:
    • Even: өрэк (örək), өлики (öliki)
    • Evenki: улукӣ (ulukī)
    • Negidal: олохӣ (oloxiī), улукӣ (ulukī), олокӣ (olokī), олукӣ (olukī)
    • ⇒ Oroqen: urkitʃɛn (< *xulukīčēn ?)
  • South Tungusic:
    • Central:
      • Oroch: олоки (oloki)
      • Udihe: олохи (oloxi)
    • South-Eastern:
      • Nanai: хулу (xulu)
      • Orok: холо (xolo), хулу (xulu)
      • Ulch: ху̇лу̇ (xu̇lu̇)

References

• Cincius, V. I. (1977) Сравнительный словарь тунгусо-маньчжурских языков (in Russian), volume 2, Leningrad: Nauka, pages 263-264
• 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 223.