Reconstruction:Proto-Mongolic/temexen

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

Etymology

From Proto-Turkic *tebe +‎ *-xen.

Noun

*temexen

1. camel

Hypernyms

• *boda (“livestock”)

Hyponyms

• *iŋgen (“camel mare”)
• *botagan (“camel foal”)

See also

• *böken (“hump”)
• *buila (“camel's nose-plug”)

Descendants

• Middle Mongol:
  • Mongolian script: ᠲᠡᠮᠡᠭᠡᠨ (temegen), ᠲᠡᠮᠡᠭᠡ (temege)
  • Arabic script: تيمن (tem(e)n), تمن (t(e)m(e)n)
  • Armenian script: թաման (tʿaman) (Kirakos Gandzaketsi)
  • Han script: 忒墨根 (tèmògēn)
• Mongolian:
  • Classical Mongolian: ᠲᠡᠮᠡᠭᠡ (temege)
  • Khalkha Mongolian: тэмээ (temee)
  • Ordos Mongolian: /tʰemeː/
• Kalmyk: темән (temän)
• Buryat: тэмээ (temee)
  • Khamnigan Mongol: тэмээ
  • → Russian: тыме́н (tymén), тыме́нь (tyménʹ)
• Daur: temee
• East Yugur: temeen
• Monguor:
  • Mongghul: timeen
  • Mangghuer: tiemie
• Mogholi: temå, temån
• → Yakut: тэбиэн (tebien), тэмиэн (temien)
  • → Evenki: тэве̄н (təwēn)
• Tungusic:
  • → Evenki: тэмэгэн (təməgən)
  • → Solon: тэмэгэн
  • → Manchu: ᡨᡝᠮᡝᠨ (temen)
    • → Nanai: тэмэн (temen)
    • → Oroch: тэмэн (“elephant”)

References

• Nugteren, Hans (2011) Mongolic phonology and the Qinghai-Gansu languages (dissertation)‎^[2], Utrecht: LOT, page 517
• Sanžejev, G. D., Orlovskaja, M. N., Ševernina, Z. V. (2015–) Etimologičeskij slovarʹ mongolʹskix jazykov: v 3 t. [Etymological dictionary of Mongolic languages: in 3 vols.] (in Russian), volume III, Moscow: Institute of Oriental Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences, page 161
• Starostin, Sergei, Dybo, Anna, Mudrak, Oleg (2003) Etymological dictionary of the Altaic languages (Handbuch der Orientalistik; VIII.8), Leiden, New York, Köln: E.J. Brill