Reconstruction:Proto-Tungusic/emün

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)**
	10
	1	2 →	10 →
Cardinal: emün Distributive: emütel

Alternative reconstructions

*emö-n (per Janhunen)
*emū-n (per Starostin)

Etymology

Benzing proposes an earlier form *emgüen due to reason that the elements *-guan and *-gun used to form numerals.

Numeral

*emün

one

Descendants

Jurchenic:
- Jurchen: әmu (Jurchen script: ), 額木 (emu /⁠e-mu⁠/)
  - Kyakala: 额穆 (emu)
  - Manchu: ᡝᠮᡠ (emu)
Tungusic:
- Northern Tungusic:
  - Even: умэн (umən), өмэн (ömən)
  - Evenki: умӯн (umūn)
  - Negidal: эмэн (emen)
  - Oroqen: umun
  - Solon: emung
- Southern Tungusic:
  - Central:
    - Oroch: омон (omon), омо (omo), ому (omu)
    - Udihe: омо (omo)
  - South-Eastern:
    - Nanai: эмун (emun)
    - Orok: умӯкэ (umūkə)
    - Ulch: уму(н) (umu(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 101
Cincius, V. I. (1977), Сравнительный словарь тунгусо-маньчжурских языков [Comparative Dictionary of Tungus-Manchu Languages] (in Russian), volume 2, Leningrad: Nauka, pages 270-272
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.
Doerfer, Gerhard; Knüppel, Michael (2004), Etymologisch-ethnologisches Wörterbuch tungusischer Dialekte, Hildesheim: Olms, page 653