Reconstruction:Proto-Tungusic/gora

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

Adjective

*gora

far, distant

Derived terms

*gorapti (“early, soon”)

Descendants

Jurchenic:
- Jurchen: golo, 過羅 (go-lo)
  - Manchu: ᡤᠣᡵᠣ (goro)
Tungusic:
- North Tungusic:
  - Even: гор (gor)
  - Evenki: горо (goro)
  - Negidal: гойо (gojo)
  - Solon: goro
- South Tungusic:
  - Central:
    - Oroch: го̄ (gō)
    - Udihe: го̄ло (gōlo)
  - South-Eastern:
    - Nanai: горо (goro)
    - ⇒ Orok: гороло бӣ (gorolo bī)
    - Ulch: горо (goro)

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 99
Cincius, V. I. (1975) Сравнительный словарь тунгусо-маньчжурских языков [Comparative Dictionary of Tungus-Manchu Languages] (in Russian), volume 1, Leningrad: Nauka, pages 161-162
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 166.

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