Reconstruction:Proto-Tungusic/ʒep-

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 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

Unknown. Either a simplex or a derivative.

If it is indeed a derivation, then it could be analyzable as *ʒe- +‎ *-p. Even though the suffix *-p is used as reflexive suffix in Tungusic languages, such in *ʒalu-p- (“to feel”) and *sulā-p- (“to stay behind”), the function on this verb is unknown since if it had been used then it whould have made this verb intransitive. Or less likely a semantic shift "to get eaten" > "to eat" could also happen. (Can this(+) etymology be sourced?)

Verb

*ʒep- (transitive)

  1. to eat

Derived terms

Descendants

Further reading

References

  • Benzing, Johannes (1955) Die tungusischen Sprachen. Versuch einer vergleichenden Grammatik (Abhandlungen der Geistes- und Sozialwissenschaftlichen Klasse; 11) (in German), Wiesbaden: Verlag der Akademie der Wissenschaften und der Literatur in Mainz in Kommission bei Franz Steiner Verlag, pages 34, 124
  • Vovin, Alexander, Janhunen, Juha, de la Fuente, José Andrés Alonso (2023) The Tungusic Languages (Routledge Language Family Series), Abingdon: Routledge
  • Cincius, V. I. (1975) Сравнительный словарь тунгусо-маньчжурских языков (in Russian), volume 1, Leningrad: Nauka, pages 279-280
  • Kane, Daniel (1989) The Sino-Jurchen Vocabulary of the Bureau of Interpreters (Uralic and Altaic Series; vol. 153), Bloomington, Indiana: Research Institute for Inner Asian Studies, Indiana University, →ISBN, page 341.
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