Reconstruction:Proto-Tungusic/akin

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

• *akun

Etymology

From *a- +‎ *-kin. Similarities with Turkic languages (Kyrgyz ага (aga, “elder brother”) etc.) have to be coincidence since they have different etymology.

Noun

*akin

1. elder brother

Declension

Declension of *akin

	Singular
Nominative	*akin
Accusative	*akinba
Genitive	*akinŋī
Dative	*akindua
Locative	*akinla
Ablative	*akindiki
Prolative	*akinli
Elative	*akingiʒi
Instrumental	*akinʒi
Delative	*akinlāki
Directive	*akintiki
Comitative	*akingili

See also

• *amin
• *kaka

Descendants

• Jurchenic:
  • Jurchen: 阿洪 (ahun /⁠a-hung⁠/)
    • Manchu: ᠠᡥᡡᠨ (ahūn)
• Tungusic:
  • North Tungusic:
    • Even: акан (akan)
    • Evenki: акин (akin)
    • Negidal: ахин (axin), ага (aga)
    • Oroqen: akɪn
  • South Tungusic:
    • Central:
      • Oroch: ака (aka), акин (akin)
      • Udihe: аг’а (aˀa)
    • South-Eastern:
      • Nanai: ага (aga)
      • Orok: ага (aga)
      • Ulch: ага (aga)
• → Nivkh: акан (akan), аки (aki)

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 67
• Cincius, V. I. (1975) Сравнительный словарь тунгусо-маньчжурских языков [Comparative Dictionary of Tungus-Manchu Languages] (in Russian), volume 1, Leningrad: Nauka, pages 23-24
• 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 277.