Reconstruction:Proto-Tungusic/nansa

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 exhibit assimilative change *nansa > *nanza > **nanna, **nanra, **nandra. [1]

Perhaps analyzable as *na- +‎ *-n-sa.

The suffix *-n-sa (combination of velar stop segment *-n- and class marker *-sa), possibly denoting nouns related to nature and other life forms; compare *xabdansa (“leaf”), *dönse (“earth”) and *sugʒansa (“fish”) etc.

Noun

*nansa

  1. human skin
    Synonym: *xerekte
  2. animal skin

Declencion

Declension of *nansa
Singular
Nominative *nansa
Accusative *nansaba
Genitive *nansaŋī
Dative *nansadua
Locative *nansalā
Ablative *nansadiki
Prolative *nansali
Elative *nansagiʒi
Instrumental *nansaʒi
Delative *nansalāki
Directive *nansatiki
Comitative *nansagili

Descendants

  • Jurchenic:
    • Manchu: ᠨᠣᡨᡥᠣ (notho, “bark of a tree”)
  • Tungusic:
    • Northern Tungusic:
    • Southern Tungusic:
      • Central:
        • Oroch: наха (naxa), наса (nasa)
        • Udihe: њиа (ńia), нехэ (nexə)
      • South-Eastern:
        • Nanai: нанта (nanta)
        • Orok: ната (nata), натта (natta)
        • Ulch: нанта (nanta)

References

  1. ^ Fuchs, Walter, Lopatin, Ivan A., Menges, Karl, Denis, Sinor (1968) Tungusologie (Handbuch der Orientalistik; V.3), Leiden and Köln: Brill, page 49
  • 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 70
  • Cincius, V. I. (1975) Сравнительный словарь тунгусо-маньчжурских языков [Comparative Dictionary of Tungus-Manchu Languages] (in Russian), volume 1, Leningrad: Nauka, pages 583-584, 606
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