Reconstruction:Proto-Mongolic/hünegen
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Proto-Mongolic
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Reconstruction
[edit]Most languages show *hünegen, the raising or disappearance of the middle vowel in some forms is likely secondary.
Etymology
[edit]Analyzable as *hüne- + *-gen, with the second element recurring in other animal names.
Noun
[edit]*hünegen
Descendants
[edit]- Middle Mongol:
- Mongolian: ᠦᠨᠡᠭᠡᠨ (ünegen)
- Arabic: هوناكان (hünegen) (Muqaddimat), هُنْكانْ, هُُونْكان (hüngen) (Leiden manuscript)
- Armenian: հօնքան (hōnkʻan) (Kirakos Gandzaketsi)
- Chinese: 伏捏革 (Beilu Yiyu), [script needed] (hunegen) (Secret History)
- Phags-Pa: ꡜꡠꡟ (heu-) (text damaged)
- Mongolian:
- Buryat: үнэгэ (ünege), үнэгэн (ünegen)
- Khamnigan Mongol: ünege(n)
- Kalmyk: үнгн (üngn)
- Daur: xunugw, hunehe, ünüg
- East Yugur: hönegen, henegen
- Monguor:
- Kangjia: fünigo
- Dongxiang: funiegve, funiegven, funieɣè
- Mogholi: eljigan
Further reading
[edit]- Nugteren, Hans (2011) Mongolic phonology and the Qinghai-Gansu languages (dissertation)[1], Utrecht: LOT, page 369
- Poppe, Nicholas (1955) Introduction to Mongolian comparative studies, Helsinki: Suomalais-ugrilainen Seura, page 55
- Poppe, Nicholas (1964) “On some Mongolian names of wild beasts”, in Central Asiatic Journal[2], volume 9, number 3, pages 162–163