Reconstruction:Proto-Tungusic/palụka

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.

From Proto-Mongolic *haluka or its ancestor, possibly of Indo-European origin.

Compare Mongolian алх (alx), Kazakh балға (balğa), Sanskrit परशु (paraśu, “axe”), Ancient Greek πέλεκυς (pélekus, “axe”), Russian палка (palka).

*palụka

1. hammer

• Jurchen:
  • Manchu: ᡶᠣᠯᡥᠣ (folho)
• Tungusic:
  • North Tungusic:
    • Even: халка̇ (halkȧ)
    • Evenki: халка (halka)
    • Negidal: (halka)
    • Solon: алха (alha)
  • South Tungusic:
    • Central:
      • Oroch: халуа
      • Udihe: халуга
    • South-Eastern:
      • Nanai: палоа (paloa)
      • Orok: пало (palo), (paloγa)
      • Ulch: (palawun)

• Cincius, V. I. (1977) Сравнительный словарь тунгусо-маньчжурских языков (in Russian), volume 2, Leningrad: Nauka, page 313
• Rozycki, William Vincent (1994) Mongol Elements in Manchu (Uralic and Altaic series; 157), Bloomington, Indiana: Indiana University, Research Institute for Inner Asian Studies, page 113