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Reconstruction:Proto-Tungusic/putakān

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

Perhaps from earlier *pubta-kān, now can be analyzable as *puta- +‎ -kān. Compare Proto-Mongolic *huxuta, whence Mongolian уут (uut).

Noun

*putakān

  1. sack, bag

Descendants
  • Jurchen:
    • Literary Manchu: [script needed] (fintaχa)
  • Tungusic:
    • North Tungusic:
      • Evenki: [script needed] (hutakān)
        • → Dolgan: Һутака, утака
      • Even: [script needed] (hụtqan)
      • Negidal: [script needed] (xotakān)
    • South Tungusic:
      • Central:
        • Oroch: [script needed] (xuta(ka))
        • Udihe: [script needed] (xut`a)
      • South-Eastern:
        • Nanai: [script needed] (pōtačã)
        • Orok: [script needed] (pụta)
        • Ulch: [script needed] (pụta(n))

References
  • Cincius, V. I. (1977) Сравнительный словарь тунгусо-маньчжурских языков [Comparative Dictionary of Tungus-Manchu Languages] (in Russian), volume 2, Leningrad: Nauka, page 356
  • Starostin, Sergei, Dybo, Anna, Mudrak, Oleg (2003) “*puta-kān”, in Etymological dictionary of the Altaic languages (Handbuch der Orientalistik; VIII.8), Leiden, New York, Köln: E.J. Brill
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