Reconstruction:Proto-Mongolic/čïlaxun

This Proto-Mongolic 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.

Internal reconstruction points to earlier *čïlapun, potentially from an unknown verb *čïla-.

Traditionally connected to Turkic (cf. Chuvash чул (čul)) and Korean (cf. 돌 (dol)). However, according to Doerfer (1965), similarities to Proto-Turkic *tāĺ point to an early borrowing rather than inheritance. His argument is seconded by Vovin (2005), in his debunking of the "Altaic hypothesis".

*čïlaxun

1. stone

• *kada (“boulder”)
• *kürü

• Middle Mongol:
  • Mongolian: ᠴᠢᠯᠠᠭᠤᠨ (čilaɣun)
  • Phags-pa: ꡅꡞ
    ꡙ
    ꡖꡟꡋ (č'i-l-'un)
  • Chinese: 赤老文, 赤牢文 (čilaun, “stone, firestone”) (Beilu Yiyu)
• Mongolian:
  • Classical: ᠴᠢᠯᠠᠭᠤ (čilaɣu)
  • Khalkha Mongolian: чулуу (čuluu)
  • Ordos: /t͡ʃʰilʊː/
• Buryat: шулуу(н) (šuluu(n))
• Khamnigan Mongol: čiluu(n), čuluu(n)
• Kalmyk: чолун (çolun)
• Daur: coloo
• East Yugur: ciluu
• Kangjia: cilo

• Doerfer, Gerhard (1965) Türkische und mongolische Elemente im Neupersischen [Turkic and Mongolian Elements in New Persian] (Akademie der Wissenschaften und der Literatur: Veröffentlichungen der Orientalischen Kommission; 19)‎ (in German), volume 2, Wiesbaden: Franz Steiner Verlag, page 437
• Nugteren, Hans (2011) Mongolic phonology and the Qinghai-Gansu languages (dissertation)‎, Utrecht: LOT, page 302
• Räsänen, Martti (1969) Versuch eines etymologischen Wörterbuchs der Türksprachen (in German), Helsinki: Suomalais-ugrilainen seura, page 466
• Vovin, Alexander (2005): "The end of the Altaic controversy" . Central Asiatic Journal volume 49, issue 1, pages 111-112.