Reconstruction:Proto-Tungusic/loxa

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

Noun

*loxa

1. sword, sabre

Declension

Declension of *loxa

	Singular
Nominative	*loxa
Accusative	*loxaba
Genitive	*loxaŋī
Dative	*loxadua
Locative	*loxalā
Ablative	*loxadiki
Prolative	*loxali
Elative	*loxagiʒi
Instrumental	*loxaʒi
Delative	*loxalāki
Directive	*loxatiki
Comitative	*loxagili

Alternative reconstructions

• *loxan

Descendants

• Jurchenic:
  • Jurchen: 羅火 (loho /⁠lo-ho⁠/, “dagger”)
    • Manchu: ᠯᠣᡥᠣ (loho)
• Tungusic:
  • Northern Tungusic:
    • Even: лукучнӯн (lukucnūn)
    • Negidal: лохон (loxon)
  • Southern Tungusic:
    • Central:
      • Oroch: лохон (loxon)
      • Udihe: ло̄ (lō)
    • South-Eastern:
      • Nanai: лохон (loxon)
      • Ulch: лохо(н) (loxo(n))

References

• Cincius, V. I. (1975), Сравнительный словарь тунгусо-маньчжурских языков [Comparative Dictionary of Tungus-Manchu Languages] (in Russian), volume 1, Leningrad: Nauka, page 509
• Kane, Daniel (1989), The Sino-Jurchen Vocabulary of the Bureau of Interpreters (Uralic and Altaic Series; vol. 153), Bloomington, Indiana: Research Institute for Inner Asian Studies, Indiana University, →ISBN, page 258.