Reconstruction:Proto-Tungusic/xolsa

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

From *xol +‎ *-sa (“class marker”). For similar development, compare *ölse (“meat”).

Noun

*xolsa

1. fish

Descendants

• Northern
  • Even: олра̇ (olrȧ)
  • Evenki: олло (ollo)
  • Oroqen: ɔlɔ
  • Negidal: оло
• Central
  • Oroch: окто
  • Udihe: олохо (oloxo)
    • Khabarovsk: олō
• South-Eastern:
  • Nanai: холто (holto)
  • Orok: холто (holto)
  • Ulch: холто

References

• Fuchs, Walter; Lopatin, Ivan A.; Menges, Karl; Denis, Sinor (1968), Tungusologie (Handbuch der Orientalistik; V.3), Leiden and Köln: Brill, page 134
• 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 69
• Cincius, V. I. (1977), Сравнительный словарь тунгусо-маньчжурских языков [Comparative Dictionary of Tungus-Manchu Languages] (in Russian), volume 2, Leningrad: Nauka, page 14
• Cincius, V. I. (1945), Sravnitelʹnaja fonetika tunguso-manʹčžurskix jazykov [Comparative Phonology of Tungus-Manchu Languages] (in Russian), Leningrad: UčPedGiz, page 198