Reconstruction:Proto-Tungusic/-ldu

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

Compared to Proto-Mongolic *-ldu (“reciprocative suffix”) by Benzing. Compare also Proto-Turkic *-iĺč (“reciprocative suffix”).

Suffix

*-ldu

  1. Forms reciprocal verbs.
    ‎*apa- (“to encounter; attack”) + ‎*-ldu → ‎*apaldu- (“to attack each other”)

Descendants

  • Jurchenic:
    • Manchu: -ᠨᡩᡠ (-ndu) (as in ᠠᡶᠠᠨᡩᡠ (afandu, “to fight against each other”))
  • Tungusic:
    • Northern Tungusic:
      • Even: -лда (-lda)
      • Evenki: -лдӣ (-lʒī)
      • Negidal: -лди (-ldi)
      • Solon: -ldi
    • Southern Tungusic:
      • Central:
        • Udihe: -гди (-gdi)
      • South-Eastern:
        • Nanai: -лто (-lto)

References

  • 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 121
  • Martine Robbeets (2005) “Is Japanese related to Korean, Tungusic, Mongolic and Turkic?”, in Turcologica 64.‎[1], pages 380, 416
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