Reconstruction:Proto-Tungusic/palŋa

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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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Alternative Reconstructions

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Reconstruction notes

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The reconstruction of this word is not certain and reconstructed as different by few linguists.

  1. EDAL reconstructs as *palŋa, also notes that the other languages except Manchu reflect *pańŋa, and the Manchu probably reflects the earlier variant *paliŋa.
  2. Benzing unsurely reconstructs as *paliŋa.
  3. According to Kazama, the proto-form of this noun has a consonant cluster *-rŋ-, perhaps due to PTM *-r- > -j- in Nanai .

Noun

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*palŋa

  1. palm of hand

Declension

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Descendants

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References

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  • 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 45
  • Cincius, V. I. (1977) Сравнительный словарь тунгусо-маньчжурских языков [Comparative Dictionary of Tungus-Manchu Languages] (in Russian), volume 2, Leningrad: Nauka, pages 321, 314
  • 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 326.