Reconstruction:Proto-Tungusic/dolba

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

Some of descendants, point on the derived form *dolbanī.

Noun

*dolba

night

Declension

Declension of *dolba

	Singular
Nominative	*dolba
Accusative	*dolbaba
Genitive	*dolbaŋī
Dative	*dolbadua
Locative	*dolbalā
Ablative	*dolbadiki
Prolative	*dolbali
Elative	*dolbagiʒi
Instrumental	*dolbaʒi
Delative	*dolbalāki
Directive	*dolbatiki
Comitative	*dolbagili

Descendants

Jurchenic:
- Jurchen: 多博力 (dobori /⁠do-bo-li⁠/)
  - Manchu: ᡩᠣᠪᠣᡵᡳ (dobori)
Tungusic:
- Northern Tungusic:
  - Even: долба (dolʙa), долбани (dolʙaņi)
  - Evenki: долбонӣ (dolboņī)
  - Negidal: долбо (dolbo), долбон (dolbon), долбонӣ (dolbonī)
  - Oroqen: dɔlbɔ
  - Solon: dolbo
- Southern Tungusic:
  - Central:
    - Oroch: доббо (dobbo)
    - Udihe: догбо (dogbo)
  - South-Eastern:
    - Nanai: долбо (dolbo), долбори (dolbori)
    - Orok: долбо (dolbo), долбон’и́ (dolbońí), долбон’н’ие (dolbońńie)
    - Ulch: долбо (dolbo)

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 95
Cincius, V. I. (1975), Сравнительный словарь тунгусо-маньчжурских языков [Comparative Dictionary of Tungus-Manchu Languages] (in Russian), volume 1, Leningrad: Nauka, pages 213-214
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 188.