Reconstruction:Proto-Mongolic/yosun

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

Perhaps suffixed with *-sun, but the root is unknown. ESMJa also compares *yobu-.

Noun

*yosun

1. custom, habit, rule

Descendants

• Middle Mongol:

  Han Script: [Term?] (/⁠yosu(n)⁠/) (Secret History of the Mongols)

  Mongolian Script: ᠶᠣᠰᠤ (yosu)

  • Central Mongolic:
    • Classical Mongolian: ᠶᠣᠰᠤ (yosu)
      • Mongolian: ёс (jos)
      • Buryat: ёһон (johon)
      • → Manchu: ᠶᠣᠰᠣ (yoso)
    • Written Oirat:
      • Kalmyk: йосн (yosn)
  • Daur: [Term?] (/⁠yɔs⁠/)
  • Southern Mongolic:
    • East Yugur: [Term?] (/⁠yɔsɔ⁠/), [Term?] (/⁠yosə⁠/)
    • Shirongolic:
      • Monguor:
        • ⇒ Mangghuer: [Term?] (/⁠yosla-⁠/)
  • → Chagatai: یوسون (ywswn /⁠yosun⁠/)
    • Uyghur: يوسۇن (yosun)
    • Uzbek: yoʻsin
  • → Kyrgyz: жосун (josun)
  • → Old Uyghur: [Term?] (/⁠yosun⁠/)
  • → Tuvan: ёзу (yozu)

Further reading

• Nugteren, Hans (2011), Mongolic phonology and the Qinghai-Gansu languages (dissertation)‎^[1], Utrecht: LOT, page 546
• Sanžejev, G. D.; Orlovskaja, M. N.; Ševernina, Z. V. (2015–), “yosun”, in Etimologičeskij slovarʹ mongolʹskix jazykov: v 3 t. [Etymological dictionary of Mongolic languages: in 3 vols.] (in Russian), Moscow: Institute of Oriental Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences, page 227
• Khabtagaeva, Bayarma (2009), Mongolic Elements in Tuvan, Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, page 38
• Doerfer, Gerhard (1975), Türkische und mongolische Elemente im Neupersischen [Turkic and Mongolian Elements in New Persian] (Akademie der Wissenschaften und der Literatur: Veröffentlichungen der Orientalischen Kommission; 21)‎^[2] (in German), volume IV, Wiesbaden: Franz Steiner Verlag, § 408, page 402