Reconstruction:Proto-Tungusic/xulukī
Appearance
Proto-Tungusic
[edit]Alternative reconstructions
[edit]Etymology
[edit]*-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
[edit]*xulukī
Descendants
[edit]- Jurchenic:
- Tungusic:
- North Tungusic:
- South Tungusic:
References
[edit]- ^ 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 23
- Cincius, V. I. (1977) Сравнительный словарь тунгусо-маньчжурских языков [Comparative Dictionary of Tungus-Manchu Languages] (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.