Reconstruction:Proto-Mongolic/kurïgan

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.

Some forms derive from syncopated *kurgan, lowering of the middle vowel in Muqaddimat is unexplained.

From Proto-Turkic *koŕï +‎ *-gan, see Turkish kuzu.

*kurïgan

1. lamb

• *konïn (“sheep”)

• Middle Mongol:
  • Arabic: قوراغان (quraγan), قولاغان (qulaγan) (Muqaddimat), قريْغان (quriγan) (Leiden manuscript)
  • Armenian: ղուրղան (łurłan) (Kirakos Gandzaketsi)
  • Chinese: 忽兩案) (quriγan) (Beilu Yiyu), (quriqa(n)) (Secret History)
• Mongolian:
  • Classical: ᠬᠤᠷᠠᠭ᠎ᠠ (qurag-a)
  • Khalkha Mongolian: хурга (xurga)
  • Ordos: /xʊrɢa/
• Buryat: хурьга(н) (xurʹga(n))
• Khamnigan Mongol: xuriga(n), xurigu(n)
• Kalmyk: хурһн (xurğn)
• East Yugur: xurghan
• Monguor:
  • Mangghuer: khuerghuer
  • Mongghul: hurigha
• Bonan: ghurghang, xurghang
• Kangjia: ghurghun
• Dongxiang: ghugvan
• Mogholi: qurghan, qorghan
• → Southern Altai: кураган (kuragan)
• → Evenki: курка̄н (kurkān) (Nerchinsk)
• → Jurchen: houo-li-han

• Nugteren, Hans (2011) Mongolic phonology and the Qinghai-Gansu languages (dissertation)‎, Utrecht: LOT, page 433
• Doerfer, Gerhard (1985) Mongolo-Tungusica (in German), Wiesbaden: O. Harrassowitz, page 131