Reconstruction:Proto-Tungusic/orākta

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

*orakta (per Benzing)

Etymology

From *orā- +‎ *-kta.

Noun

*orākta

grass
Synonym: *pajīkta
dry grass, hay

Declension

Declension of *orākta

	Singular
Nominative	*orākta
Accusative	*orāktaba
Genitive	*orāktaŋī
Dative	*orāktadua
Locative	*orāktalā
Ablative	*orāktadiki
Prolative	*orāktali
Elative	*orāktagiʒi
Instrumental	*orāktaʒi
Delative	*orāktalāki
Directive	*orāktatiki
Comitative	*orāktagili

Descendants

Jurchenic:
- Jurchen: 斡兒火 (orho /⁠o-r-ho⁠/)
  - Manchu: ᠣᡵᡥᠣ (orho)
Tungusic:
- Northern Tungusic:
  - Even: ора̄т (orāt)
  - Evenki: орокто (orokto)
  - Negidal: ойокто (ojokto)
  - Oroqen: ɔrɔktɔ
  - Solon: orokto
- Southern Tungusic:
  - Central:
    - Oroch: о̄кто (ōkto)
    - Udihe: окто (okto)
  - South-Eastern:
    - Nanai: орокта (orokta)
    - Orok: орокто (orokto)
    - Ulch: орхокта (orxokta)

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 72
Cincius, V. I. (1977) Сравнительный словарь тунгусо-маньчжурских языков [Comparative Dictionary of Tungus-Manchu Languages] (in Russian), volume 2, Leningrad: Nauka, page 24
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 209.