Reconstruction:Proto-Tungusic/-si

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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

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Etymology

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Suffix variant of *si (thou, you).

Suffix

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*-si

  1. second-person singular possessive suffix.
    *gerbǖ (name) + ‎*-si → ‎*gerbǖsi (your name)
    *Sini gerbǖsi ŋüi? [1]
    What is your name? (Lit. “Who is your name?”)

Derived terms

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  • *-nsi (second-person singular aorist ending)

See also

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  • *-bi (first-person singular possessive suffix)
  • *-ni (third-person singular possessive suffix)
  • *-bu(n) (first-person plural possessive suffix)

Descendants

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  • Tungusic:
    • North Tungusic:
      • Even: -сэн (-sən), -си (-si)
      • Evenki: (-s), -ис (-is)
      • Negidal: (-s) [2]
      • Solon: -si
    • South Tungusic:

References

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  1. ^ Andreas Hölzl (2023) “'What's your name?' in Tungusic and beyond”, in Tungusic languages: Past and present[1], page 89
  2. ^ Natalia Aralova & Brigitte Pakendorf (2023) “Non-canonical possessive constructions in Negidal and other Tungusic languages: a new analysis of the so-called “alienable possession” suffix”, in Linguistics: An Interdisciplinary Journal of the Language Sciences[2], page 5