Reconstruction:Proto-Tungusic/pūpūn

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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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Derived from *pupu- (to saw) +‎ *-pūn. However, the expected form would be such *pu(b/p)upūn rather than *pūpūn. According to EDAL, the existing form reflect the verbal stem *pubu- and the derived noun *pubu-pu(n) (with some later confusion because of the loss of *-b-).

Almost all of the descendants obviously reflect *pūpūn or *pūbūn. There are also descendants who preserved the stem *pū-.

Compare also Proto-Nivkh [2] *puv- (saw) (Whence Nivkh пʼуф (pʼuf)), likely a Tungusic borrowing.

Noun

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*pūpūn

  1. saw

Declension

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Descendants

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References

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  1. ^ Martijn G. T. M. Knapen (2021) “The oldest layer of Amuric-Tungusic lexical contacts”, in Diversity Linguistics[1]
  2. ^ Fortescue, Michael (2016) Comparative Nivkh Dictionary, München: LINCOM, page 190
  • 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 63
  • Cincius, V. I. (1977) Сравнительный словарь тунгусо-маньчжурских языков [Comparative Dictionary of Tungus-Manchu Languages] (in Russian), volume 2, Leningrad: Nauka, page 336
  • 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 252.