Reconstruction:Proto-Tungusic/sagdV

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.

The letter "V" stands for both *a or *i.

*sagda or *sagdi

1. old
2. old man

• Jurchenic:
  • Manchu: ᠰᠠᡴ᠋ᡩ᠋ᠠ (sakda)
• Tungusic:
  • North Tungusic:
    • Even: хагди (hagʒi)
    • Evenki: сагды (sagdi)
    • Negidal: сагды (sagdi)
    • Oroqen: ʃagdɪ
    • Solon: sagdī, saddī
  • South Tungusic:
    • Central:
      • Oroch: сагди (sagdi)
      • Udihe: сагди (sagdi, “big”)
    • South-Eastern:
      • Nanai: сагди (sagʒi)
      • Orok: сагда (sagda)
      • Ulch: сагди (sagdi)

• 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 30
• Cincius, V. I. (1977) Сравнительный словарь тунгусо-маньчжурских языков [Comparative Dictionary of Tungus-Manchu Languages] (in Russian), volume 2, Leningrad: Nauka, page 53