Reconstruction:Proto-Tungusic/kačikān
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Proto-Tungusic[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Maybe from earlier *kaŋčikān. Now can be analyzable as *kači- + -kān. Compared to Proto-Turkic *kaŋčïk (“bitch (female dog); female”), whence Turkish kancık (“female dog”), Kyrgyz канчык (kancık). (Can this(+) etymology be sourced?)
Noun[edit]
*kačikān
Descendants[edit]
- Tungusic:
References[edit]
- Cincius, V. I. (1975) Сравнительный словарь тунгусо-маньчжурских языков [Comparative Dictionary of Tungus-Manchu Languages] (in Russian), volume 1, Leningrad: Nauka, page 385
- Starostin, Sergei, Dybo, Anna, Mudrak, Oleg (2003) “*kači-kān”, in Etymological dictionary of the Altaic languages (Handbuch der Orientalistik; VIII.8), Leiden, New York, Köln: E.J. Brill