Reconstruction:Proto-Tungusic/xorin

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

Proto-Tungusic numbers (edit)
 ←  10 20 30  → 
2
    Cardinal: *xorin

Alternative reconstructions

  • *xorïn (per Janhunen)

Etymology

Borrowed from Proto-Mongolic *korïn (“twenty”)[1][2]. See *gutïn (“thirty”).

Numeral

*xorin

  1. twenty, 20

Descendants

  • Jurchenic:
    • Jurchen: orin (Jurchen script: )
  • Tungusic:

References

  1. ^ Janhunen, Juha (2003) The Mongolic Languages‎[1], Routledge, →ISBN, page 397
  2. ^ Doerfer, Gerhard (1985) Mongolo-Tungusica (in German), Wiesbaden: O. Harrassowitz, page 81
  • 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 102
  • Cincius, V. I. (1977) Сравнительный словарь тунгусо-маньчжурских языков [Comparative Dictionary of Tungus-Manchu Languages] (in Russian), volume 2, Leningrad: Nauka, page 24
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