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Reconstruction:Proto-Tungusic/xilŋü

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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

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Etymology

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Probably from an earlier trisyllabic from *xileŋü.[1]

Noun

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*xilŋü

  1. tongue

Declension

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Descendants

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References

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  1. ^ Vovin, Alexander; Janhunen, Juha; de la Fuente, José Andrés Alonso (2023), The Tungusic Languages (Routledge Language Family Series), Abingdon: Routledge, page 46
  2. ^ Fortescue, Michael (2016), Comparative Nivkh Dictionary, München: LINCOM, page 74
  3. ^ Martijn G. T. M. Knapen (2021), “The oldest layer of Amuric-Tungusic lexical contacts”, in Diversity Linguistics[1], pages 93-94
  • Benzing, Johannes (1955), Die tungusischen Sprachen. Versuch einer vergleichenden Grammatik (Abhandlungen der Geistes- und Sozialwissenschaftlichen Klasse; 11) (in German), Wiesbaden: Verlag der Akademie der Wissenschaften und der Literatur in Mainz in Kommission bei Franz Steiner Verlag, page 43
  • Cincius, V. I. (1975), Сравнительный словарь тунгусо-маньчжурских языков [Comparative Dictionary of Tungus-Manchu Languages] (in Russian), volume 1, Leningrad: Nauka, pages 316-317
  • 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 315.