Reconstruction:Proto-Mongolic/küǰüxün

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.

Perhaps segmentable as *küǰü +‎ *-xün, the latter being a common ending in anatomical terms. As in *terixün (“head”).

*küǰüxün

1. neck

• *koxalaï (“throat”)

• Middle Mongol:
  • Mongolian: ᠬᠦᠵᠦᠭᠦᠨ (küǰügün)
  • Arabic: كوجون (küjün), كوجوون (küjüün), كوجووون (küjüwün) (Muqaddimat)
  • Chinese: 苦出文 (kuchuwun) (Beilu Yiyu)
• Mongolian:
  • Classical: ᠬᠦᠵᠦᠭᠦ (küǰügü)
  • Written: ᠬᠦᠵᠦᠭᠦᠦ (küǰügüü)
  • Khalkha Mongolian: хүзүү (xüzüü)
  • Ordos: /kʰʉd͡ʒʉː/
• Buryat: хүзүү(н) (xüzüü(n))
  • Khamnigan Mongol: күзүү(н)
• Kalmyk: күзүн (küzün)
• Daur: xujuu
• East Yugur: güjüün
• Monguor:
  • Mangghuer: guji
  • Mongghul: guji
• Bonan: gujung
• Kangjia: güjün
• Dongxiang: ghuzhun, ghuzhen
• Mogholi: kujun, kuzhun
• (?) → Tuvan: күжү (küjü, “nozzle of the bellows”)

• Nugteren, Hans (2011) Mongolic phonology and the Qinghai-Gansu languages (dissertation)‎, Utrecht: LOT, page 435