Reconstruction:Proto-Tungusic/ïlï-

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

Alternative reconstructions

*ili- (per EDAL)

Verb

*ïlï- (intransitive)

to stand
*ïlïrani. ― s/he stands.

Descendants

Jurchenic:
- Jurchen: 亦立 (ili- /⁠i-lii⁠/)
  - Manchu: ᡳᠯᡳᠮᠪᡳ (ilimbi)
Tungusic:
- Northern Tungusic:
  - Even: илда̄й (ildāj)
  - Evenki: илмӣ (ilmī)
  - Negidal: ил- (il-)
  - Oroqen: ɪlɪ-
  - Solon: il-
- Southern Tungusic:
  - Central:
    - Oroch: или- (ili-)
    - Udihe: или- (ili-)
  - South-Eastern:
    - Nanai: илиори (iliori)
    - Orok: иливури (ilivuri)
    - Ulch: илуву (iluwu)

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
Cincius, V. I. (1975), Сравнительный словарь тунгусо-маньчжурских языков [Comparative Dictionary of Tungus-Manchu Languages] (in Russian), volume 1, Leningrad: Nauka, pages 302-303
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 279.
Doerfer, Gerhard; Knüppel, Michael (2004), Etymologisch-ethnologisches Wörterbuch tungusischer Dialekte, Hildesheim: Olms, page 398