Reconstruction:Proto-Tungusic/nansa
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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
Most of descendants exhibit assimilative change *nansa > *nanza > **nanna, **nanra, **nandra. [1]
Perhaps analyzable as *na- + *-nsa.
The suffix *-nsa possibly denoting nouns related to nature and life forms; compare *xabdansa (“leaf”), *dunse (“earth”) and *sugʒansa (“fish”) etc.
Noun
*nansa
Declencion
Declension of *nansa
| Singular | |
|---|---|
| Nominative | *nansa |
| Accusative | *nansaba |
| Genitive | *nansaŋī |
| Dative | *nansadua |
| Locative | *nansala |
| Ablative | *nansadiki |
| Prolative | *nansali |
| Elative | *nansagiʒi |
| Instrumental | *nansaʒi |
| Delative | *nansalāki |
| Directive | *nansatiki |
| Comitative | *nansagili |
Descendants
- Jurchenic:
- Manchu: ᠨᠣᡨᡥᠣ (notho, “bark of a tree”)
- Tungusic:
- North Tungusic:
- South Tungusic:
References
- ^ Fuchs, Walter, Lopatin, Ivan A., Menges, Karl, Denis, Sinor (1968) Tungusologie (Handbuch der Orientalistik; V.3), Leiden and Köln: Brill, page 49
- 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, pages 583-584, 606