Reconstruction:Proto-Tungusic/samān

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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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Several possibilities:

  1. Generally accepted to be a derivation from *sā- (to know).
  2. Unlike the first section, EDAL derives it from an unknown stem *samā-, to make a compare with Proto-Mongolic *süme. Compare also Evenki самасик (samasik, shamanic robes) which could actually be from *samā-.
  3. Could be a loanword from Tocharian B ṣamāne (monk) or Chinese 沙門沙门 (shāmén, Buddhist monk), from Pali samaṇa from Sanskrit श्रमण (śramaṇa, ascetic, monk, devotee), from श्रम (śrama, weariness, exhaustion; labor, toil; etc.).

Noun

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*samān

  1. shaman

Descendants

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References

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  • Cincius, V. I. (1977) Сравнительный словарь тунгусо-маньчжурских языков [Comparative Dictionary of Tungus-Manchu Languages] (in Russian), volume 2, Leningrad: Nauka, page 59