Reconstruction:Proto-Tungusic/ʒȫr

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

Proto-Tungusic numbers ^(edit)

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Cardinal: *ʒȫr     Distributive: *ʒȫtel

Alternative reconstructions

• *ʒūr, *ʒȫwer

Numeral

*ʒȫr

1. two

Descendants

• Jurchenic:
  • Jurchen: 拙 (juwe /⁠jue⁠/)
    • Manchu: ᠵᡠᠸᡝ (juwe)
  • Kyakala: 㣿 (zhuo)
• Tungusic:
  • North Tungusic:
    • Even: дюр (ʒur), дӫ̄р (ʒȫr) (Ola Dialect in Magadan)
    • Evenki: дю̄р (ʒūr)
    • Negidal: ӡӯл (ǯūl)
    • Oroqen: dʒu:r
    • Solon: ʒūr
  • South Tungusic:
    • Central:
      • Oroch: дю (ǯū)
      • Udihe: ʒӯ (zū) (Northern Dialect)
    • South-Eastern:
      • Nanai: дюэр (ʒuer)
      • Orok: дө (dö), ду (du)
      • Ulch: дюэл

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 101
• Cincius, V. I. (1975) Сравнительный словарь тунгусо-маньчжурских языков [Comparative Dictionary of Tungus-Manchu Languages] (in Russian), volume 1, Leningrad: Nauka, pages 276-277
• 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 362.