Reconstruction:Proto-Tungusic/bukačān

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 *buka (“island”) +‎ *-čān (“diminutive suffix”). Some descendants show *bugačān, perhaps by analogy with *buga (“land, place; sky, God, heaven”).

Noun

*bukačān

island

Declension

Declension of *bukačān

	Singular
Nominative	*bukačān
Accusative	*bukačānba
Genitive	*bukačānŋī
Dative	*bukačāndua
Locative	*bukačānlā
Ablative	*bukačāndiki
Prolative	*bukačānli
Elative	*bukačāngiʒi
Instrumental	*bukačānʒi
Delative	*bukačānlāki
Directive	*bukačāntiki
Comitative	*bukačāngili

Descendants

Tungusic:
- Northern Tungusic:
  - Even: букчан (ʙukcan)
  - Evenki: букача̄н (bukaçān)
  - Negidal: бохача̄н (boxačān)
- Southern Tungusic:
  - Central:
    - Oroch: буга (buga), бугаса (bugasa)
    - Udihe: бугаса (bugasa)
  - South-Eastern:
    - Nanai: боача̄н (boačān)
    - Orok: боата (boata)
    - Ulch: ба̄ча(н) (bāča(n))

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 60
Cincius, V. I. (1975), Сравнительный словарь тунгусо-маньчжурских языков [Comparative Dictionary of Tungus-Manchu Languages] (in Russian), volume 1, Leningrad: Nauka, page 104
Doerfer, Gerhard; Knüppel, Michael (2004), Etymologisch-ethnologisches Wörterbuch tungusischer Dialekte, Hildesheim: Olms, page 151