Reconstruction:Proto-Tungusic/daxa-

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

Etymology

Borrowed from Proto-Mongolic *daxa- (“to follow”). Ramstedt compares the Mongolic stem with Proto-Turkic *yak- (“to come near”).

Verb

*daxa-

1. (transitive, intransitive) to follow, to obey

Descendants

• Jurchenic:
  • Manchu: ᡩᠠᡥᠠᠮᠪᡳ (dahambi)
• Tungusic:
  • Northern Tungusic:
    • Negidal: дахав- (daxaw-)
  • Southern Tungusic:
    • Central:
      • Oroch: даху- (daxu-)
      • Udihe: дахала- (daxala-)
    • South-Eastern:
      • Nanai: дахаори (dahaori)
      • Orok: даху́ри́вури (dahúrívuri)
      • Ulch: даху̇рсу̇ву̇ (daxụrsụwụ)

References

• Doerfer, Gerhard (1985), Mongolo-Tungusica (in German), Wiesbaden: O. Harrassowitz, page 142
• 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)‎^[1] (in German), volume 4, Wiesbaden: Franz Steiner Verlag, pages 104-105
• Cincius, V. I. (1975), Сравнительный словарь тунгусо-маньчжурских языков [Comparative Dictionary of Tungus-Manchu Languages] (in Russian), volume 1, Leningrad: Nauka, page 191