Reconstruction:Proto-Tungusic/lāmu

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

Borrowed from Proto-Nivkh *la-mo (“sea”).[1][2]

Noun

*lāmu

  1. sea, ocean

Declension

Declension of *lāmu
Singular
Nominative *lāmu
Accusative *lāmuba
Genitive *lāmuŋī
Dative *lāmudua
Locative *lāmulā
Ablative *lāmudiki
Prolative *lāmuli
Elative *lāmugiʒi
Instrumental *lāmuʒi
Delative *lāmulāki
Directive *lāmutiki
Comitative *lāmugili

Derived terms

  • *lāmunkān (“people living along the coast”)

Descendants

  • Jurchenic:
    • Manchu: ᠨᠠᠮᡠ (namu)
  • Tungusic:
    • Northern Tungusic:
    • Southern Tungusic:
      • Central:
        • Oroch: на̄му (nāmu)
        • Udihe: наму (namu)
      • South-Eastern:

References

  1. ^ Martijn G. T. M. Knapen (2021) “The oldest layer of Amuric-Tungusic lexical contacts”, in Diversity Linguistics‎[1], pages 96-97
  2. ^ Vovin, Alexander, Janhunen, Juha, de la Fuente, José Andrés Alonso (2023) The Tungusic Languages (Routledge Language Family Series), Abingdon: Routledge, page 527
  • 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 24
  • Cincius, V. I. (1975) Сравнительный словарь тунгусо-маньчжурских языков [Comparative Dictionary of Tungus-Manchu Languages] (in Russian), volume 1, Leningrad: Nauka, pages 490-491
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