Reconstruction:Proto-Tungusic/ŋōlimi

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

*ŋōlmi

Etymology

From *ŋōli- +‎ *-mi (“adjective-forming suffix”).

Adjective

*ŋōlimi

long

Descendants

Jurchenic:
- Jurchen: 過迷 (golmin /⁠go-mi⁠/)
  - Manchu: ᡤᠣᠯᠮᡳᠨ (golmin)
Tungusic:
- North Tungusic:
  - Even: ӈона̇м (ŋonȧm)
  - Evenki: ӈо̄ним (ŋōņim)
  - Negidal: ӈоном (ŋonom)
  - Oroqen: ŋʊnʊm
  - Solon: ninomi
- South Tungusic:
  - Central:
    - Oroch: ӈо̄ними (ŋōnimi)
    - Udihe: ваними̂ (walmí)
  - South-Eastern:
    - Nanai: ӈонэмэ (ŋoneme)
    - Orok: ӈоними (ŋonimi)
    - Ulch: валми̇ (walmị), волми̇ (wolmị), ӈолми̇ (ŋolmị)

References

Fuchs, Walter, Lopatin, Ivan A., Menges, Karl, Denis, Sinor (1968) Tungusologie (Handbuch der Orientalistik; V.3), Leiden and Köln: Brill, page 251
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 46
Cincius, V. I. (1975) Сравнительный словарь тунгусо-маньчжурских языков [Comparative Dictionary of Tungus-Manchu Languages] (in Russian), volume 1, Leningrad: Nauka, pages 664-665
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 165.

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