Reconstruction:Proto-Tungusic/xulukī

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

*xölükī ^[1]

Etymology

From *xulu- +‎ *-kī.

*-kī possibly reflects a suffix denoting nouns related to animals; compare *xerekī (“frog”), *turakī (“crow, rook”), *tōkī (“elk”), *torakī (“boar”), *sulakī (“fox”) and etc...

Noun

*xulukī

squirrel

Descendants

Jurchenic:
- Jurchen: 兀魯忽 (ul(u)hu /⁠u-lu-hu⁠/)
  - Manchu: ᡠᠯᡥᡠ (ulhu)
Tungusic:
- North Tungusic:
  - Even: өрэк (örək), өлики (öliki)
  - Evenki: улукӣ (ulukī)
  - Negidal: олохӣ (oloxiī), улукӣ (ulukī), олокӣ (olokī), олукӣ (olukī)
  - ⇒ Oroqen: urkitʃɛn (< *xulukīčēn ?)
- South Tungusic:
  - Central:
    - Oroch: олоки (oloki)
    - Udihe: олохи (oloxi)
  - South-Eastern:
    - Nanai: хулу (xulu)
    - Orok: холо (xolo), хулу (xulu)
    - Ulch: ху̇лу̇ (xu̇lu̇)

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 23

Cincius, V. I. (1977) Сравнительный словарь тунгусо-маньчжурских языков [Comparative Dictionary of Tungus-Manchu Languages] (in Russian), volume 2, Leningrad: Nauka, pages 263-264
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 223.

[1] 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 23

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