Reconstruction:Proto-Tungusic/pöril

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

*puril

Etymology

From *pöri (“young boy”) +‎ *-l (“plural suffix”). *pöri is probably related or borrowed from Proto-Mongolic *hüre (“seed”), whence Mongolian үр (ür, “seed; semen”).

Janhunen also assumes that this word is the irregular plural form of the word *pöte (“child”) which has the traces of the plural suffix *-te, however also states that these two words may completely have different etymologies.

Noun

*pöril

plural of *pöri (“young boy”): children

Declension

Declension of *pöril

	Singular
Nominative	*pöril
Accusative	*pörilbe
Genitive	*pörilŋī
Dative	*pörildüe
Locative	*pörillē
Ablative	*pörildiki
Prolative	*pörilli
Elative	*pörilgiʒi
Instrumental	*pörilʒi
Delative	*pörillēki
Directive	*pöriltiki
Comitative	*pörilgili

Descendants

Jurchenic:
- Manchu: ᡶ᠋ᡠᡵᠰᡠᠨ (fursun)
Tungusic:
- Northern Tungusic:
  - Even: хурэл (hurəl)
  - Evenki: хурил (huril)
  - Negidal: хуйил (xujil)
  - Solon: uril
- Southern Tungusic:
  - Central:
    - Oroch: хӣ (xī) (< *xīl- < *xujil < *xuril)
  - South-Eastern:
    - Nanai: пурил (puril)
    - Orok: пурил (puril)
    - Ulch: пурул (purul)

References

Doerfer, Gerhard (1985) Mongolo-Tungusica (in German), Wiesbaden: O. Harrassowitz, page 137
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 74
Vovin, Alexander, Janhunen, Juha, de la Fuente, José Andrés Alonso (2023) The Tungusic Languages (Routledge Language Family Series), Abingdon: Routledge, page 52
Cincius, V. I. (1977) Сравнительный словарь тунгусо-маньчжурских языков [Comparative Dictionary of Tungus-Manchu Languages] (in Russian), volume 2, Leningrad: Nauka, pages 357-358