Reconstruction:Proto-Tungusic/giramsa
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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 Reconstructions
Reconstruction Notes
EDAL possibly reconstructs as *giramksa because of the preservation of the *-k- in Nanai, but clearly other descendants reflect otherwise.
Etymology
Possibly from *giram- + *-sa.
Some of descendants presumably show exhibit assimilative change *giramsa > *giramza > **giramna, **giramra; which also happened in *xolsa (“fish”) and *nansa (“skin”).
Noun
*giramsa
Declension
Declension of *giramsa
| Singular | |
|---|---|
| Nominative | *giramsa |
| Accusative | *giramsaba |
| Genitive | *giramsaŋī |
| Dative | *giramsadua |
| Locative | *giramsala |
| Ablative | *giramsadiki |
| Prolative | *giramsali |
| Elative | *giramsagiʒi |
| Instrumental | *giramsaʒi |
| Delative | *giramsalāki |
| Directive | *giramsatiki |
| Comitative | *giramsagili |
Descendants
- Jurchenic:
- Tungusic:
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 70
- Cincius, V. I. (1975) Сравнительный словарь тунгусо-маньчжурских языков [Comparative Dictionary of Tungus-Manchu Languages] (in Russian), volume 1, Leningrad: Nauka, page 154
- 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 317.