Reconstruction:Proto-Tungusic/-pūn
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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
Alternative forms
Etymology
Perhaps akin to Proto-Mongolic *-xun (“noun-froming suffix”).
Suffix
*-pūn
- Derives nouns from verbs.
- *pupu- (“to saw”) + *-pūn → *pubupūn (“saw”) (> *pūpūn later)
- *sekte- (“to make a bed; litter”) + *-pūn → *sektepǖn (“bed; litter, mat”)
- *sila- (“to roast on a spit”) + *-pūn → *silepǖn (“roast skewer”)
- *öŋti- + *-pūn → *öŋtipǖn
- *gisi- (“to drum, beat a drum”) + *-pūn → *gisipǖn (“shaman mallets, drumstick”)
Derived terms
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, page 63