Reconstruction:Proto-Tungusic/dirami

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

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

Adjective

*dirami

thick

Descendants

Jurchenic:
- Jurchen: 的剌迷 (jiramin /⁠di-la-mi⁠/)
  - Manchu: ᠵᡳᡵᠠᠮᡳᠨ (jiramin)
Tungusic:
- North Tungusic:
  - Even: дыра̇м (dirȧm)
  - Evenki: дырам (diram)
  - Negidal: дейам (dejam)
  - Oroqen: diram
  - Solon: dirami
- South Tungusic:
  - Central:
    - Oroch: диями (dijami)
    - Udihe: диа̂ми (diami)
  - South-Eastern:
    - Nanai: дирами (dirami)
    - Orok: ӡи́рами (ʒírami)
    - Ulch: ди̇рами̇ (dirami)

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 32
Cincius, V. I. (1975) Сравнительный словарь тунгусо-маньчжурских языков [Comparative Dictionary of Tungus-Manchu Languages] (in Russian), volume 1, Leningrad: Nauka, pages 207-208
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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