Reconstruction:Proto-Tungusic/daga

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

Most of descendants point to a diminutive form *dagačān.

Noun

*daga

root
Synonym: *ŋüikte

Declension

Declension of *daga

	Singular
Nominative	*daga
Accusative	*dagaba
Genitive	*dagaŋī
Dative	*dagadua
Locative	*dagalā
Ablative	*dagadiki
Prolative	*dagali
Elative	*dagagiʒi
Instrumental	*dagaʒi
Delative	*dagalāki
Directive	*dagatiki
Comitative	*dagagili

Descendants

Jurchenic:
- Jurchen: 荅 (da /⁠da⁠/)
  - Manchu: ᡩᠠ (da)
Tungusic:
- Northern Tungusic:
  - Evenki: дагача̄н (dagaçān)
  - Negidal: да̄ (dā)
  - Solon: da
- Southern Tungusic:
  - Central:
    - Oroch: даха (daxa)
    - Udihe: да̄ (dā)
  - South-Eastern:
    - Nanai: дачан (dačan)
    - Orok: да̄та(н-) (dāta(n-))
    - Ulch: да̄ча(н) (dāča(n))

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 30
Cincius, V. I. (1975) Сравнительный словарь тунгусо-маньчжурских языков [Comparative Dictionary of Tungus-Manchu Languages] (in Russian), volume 1, Leningrad: Nauka, pages 188-189
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 206.