Reconstruction:Proto-Mongolic/bulugan

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This Proto-Mongolic 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-Mongolic

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Reconstruction

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Ordos and Yugur point towards *bulagan and Sino-Mongolic sources and Persian loan show *bulugan, while some languages derive from an early syncopated form *bulgan.

Daur and Yugur exhibit delabialization due to initial *b-.

Etymology

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Altaicists propose a connection with Middle Japanese ふるき (furuki, a kind of sable).

Perhaps separable into *bulu- +‎ *-gan, with the second element recurring in other animal names.(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Noun

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*bulugan

  1. sable

Descendants

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References

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  • Nugteren, Hans (2011) Mongolic phonology and the Qinghai-Gansu languages (dissertation)‎[1], Utrecht: LOT, page 290
  • Doerfer, Gerhard (1963) “94. بلغان”, in Türkische und mongolische Elemente im Neupersischen [Turkic and Mongolian Elements in New Persian] (Akademie der Wissenschaften und der Literatur: Veröffentlichungen der Orientalischen Kommission; 16)‎[2] (in German), volume 1, Wiesbaden: Franz Steiner Verlag, page 215