Reconstruction:Proto-Mongolic/sirexe

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 related to Karakhanid سَرُو (serü, “shelf”). Compare also Khakas сірирге (sìrirge, “to support”).

*sirexe

1. table

• Middle Mongol: شيره (širẽ)
• Mongolian:
  • Classical Mongolian: ᠰᠢᠷᠡᠭᠡ (sirege)
  • Khalkha Mongolian: ширээ (širee)
  • Ordos: /ʃireː/
• Kalmyk: ширә (şirä)
• Buryat: шэрээ (šeree)
  • Khamnigan Mongol: ширээ, шэрээ, сирөө
• Daur: shiree
• East Yugur: shere
  • → Western Yugur: shire
• Monguor:
  • Mangghuer: shiri
  • Mongghul: xrai
• Dongxiang: shire
• ? Bonan: shile (perhaps from Tibetan ཤིང་ལེབ (shing leb))
• Turkic:
  • → Chagatai: شيره (širä, “little table for serving food”)
    • Uyghur: شىرە (shire)
  • → Ottoman Turkish: شیره (šire)
  • → Shor: шире (“throne”)
  • → Southern Altai: ширее (širee, “throne”)
  • → Tuvan: ширээ (şiree, “table used for special occasions”)
  • → Salar: (šira, “table, throne, elevation”)
• Tungusic:
  • → Evenki: ширэ (şirə, “bed”) (Nerchinsk)
  • → Evenki: ширэ̄ (şirə̄)
• → Persian: شیره (šire, “small table”), شیرهچی (šīrečī, “butler”) (from *sirexeci)

• Doerfer, Gerhard (1963) Türkische und mongolische Elemente im Neupersischen [Turkic and Mongolian Elements in New Persian] (Akademie der Wissenschaften und der Literatur: Veröffentlichungen der Orientalischen Kommission; 16)‎ (in German), volume 1, Wiesbaden: Franz Steiner Verlag, page 367
• Nugteren, Hans (2011) Mongolic phonology and the Qinghai-Gansu languages (dissertation)‎, Utrecht: LOT, page 497
• Starostin, Sergei, Dybo, Anna, Mudrak, Oleg (2003) Etymological dictionary of the Altaic languages (Handbuch der Orientalistik; VIII.8), Leiden, New York, Köln: E.J. Brill