Reconstruction:Proto-Tungusic/borka

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

Has been compared to Mongolian будаг (budag, “dye, coloring”) by Benzing.

Noun

*borka

color

Declension

Declension of *borka

	Singular
Nominative	*borka
Accusative	*borkaba
Genitive	*borkaŋī
Dative	*borkadua
Locative	*borkalā
Ablative	*borkadiki
Prolative	*borkali
Elative	*borkagiʒi
Instrumental	*borkaʒi
Delative	*borkalāki
Directive	*borkatiki
Comitative	*borkagili

Descendants

Jurchenic:
- Jurchen: 博戮 (boco /⁠bo-čo⁠/)
  - Manchu: ᠪᠣᠴᠣ (boco)
Tungusic:
- Northern Tungusic:
  - Evenki: боркан (borkan)
  - Oroqen: butʃu
- Southern Tungusic:
  - Central:
    - Oroch: боко (boko)
    - Udihe: боко (boko)
  - South-Eastern:
    - Nanai: бойко (bojko)
    - Orok: ботчо (botčo), боччо (boččo)
    - Ulch: бочо (bočo)

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 48
Cincius, V. I. (1975) Сравнительный словарь тунгусо-маньчжурских языков [Comparative Dictionary of Tungus-Manchu Languages] (in Russian), volume 1, Leningrad: Nauka, page 96
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 360.
Doerfer, Gerhard, Knüppel, Michael (2004) Etymologisch-ethnologisches Wörterbuch tungusischer Dialekte, Hildesheim: Olms, page 131