Reconstruction:Proto-Tungusic/konin

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

  • *kọnịn (per Knapen)

Reconstruction notes

Initial x- in Nanai, Orok and Ulch should correspond to ∅- in Evenki, Manchu etc.[1] Therefore, it is more likely that it is a loanword in the Nanaic languages and Manchu is the most likely donor, as suggested by Doerfer.

Etymology

Borrowed from Proto-Mongolic *konïn (“sheep”)[2][3][4], ultimately from Proto-Turkic *kōń (“sheep”). Compare Mongolian хонь (xonʹ) and Turkish koyun.

Noun

*konin

  1. sheep

Declension

Declension of *konin
Singular
Nominative *konin
Accusative *koninba
Genitive *koninŋī
Dative *konindua
Locative *koninlā
Ablative *konindiki
Prolative *koninli
Elative *koningiʒi
Instrumental *koninʒi
Delative *koninlāki
Directive *konintiki
Comitative *koningili

Descendants

  • → Proto-Nivkh: *χoɲ (“sheep”) [5][6]
    • Nivkh: ӽонь (ẋoņ)
  • Jurchenic:
  • Tungusic:

References

  1. ^ 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, pages 42-43
  2. ^ Rozycki, William Vincent (1994) Mongol Elements in Manchu (Uralic and Altaic series; 157), Bloomington, Indiana: Indiana University, Research Institute for Inner Asian Studies, page 151
  3. ^ Doerfer, Gerhard (1967) Türkische und mongolische Elemente im Neupersischen [Turkic and Mongolian Elements in New Persian] (Akademie der Wissenschaften und der Literatur: Veröffentlichungen der Orientalischen Kommission; 20)‎[1] (in German), volume 3, Wiesbaden: Franz Steiner Verlag, pages 564-565
  4. ^ Doerfer, Gerhard (1985) Mongolo-Tungusica (in German), Wiesbaden: O. Harrassowitz, page 37
  5. ^ Fortescue, Michael (2016) Comparative Nivkh Dictionary, München: LINCOM, page 165
  6. ^ Martijn G. T. M. Knapen (2021) “The oldest layer of Amuric-Tungusic lexical contacts”, in Diversity Linguistics‎[2], page 116
  • Cincius, V. I. (1975) Сравнительный словарь тунгусо-маньчжурских языков [Comparative Dictionary of Tungus-Manchu Languages] (in Russian), volume 1, Leningrad: Nauka, pages 409-410
  • 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 216.
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