Reconstruction:Proto-Tungusic/irge

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

Noun

*irge

brain

Declension

Declension of *irge

	Singular
Nominative	*irge
Accusative	*irgebe
Genitive	*irgeŋī
Dative	*irgedüe
Locative	*irgelē
Ablative	*irgediki
Prolative	*irgeli
Elative	*irgegiʒi
Instrumental	*irgeʒi
Delative	*irgelēki
Directive	*irgetiki
Comitative	*irgegili

Descendants

Jurchenic:
- Jurchen: 兀住 (uju /⁠u-ǰu⁠/, “head⁠”)
  - Manchu: ᡠᠵᡠ (uju, “head”)
Tungusic:
- Northern Tungusic:
  - Even: иргэ (irgə)
  - Evenki: иргэ (irgə)
  - Negidal: иггэ (igge), ийгэ (ijge)
  - Oroqen: irgə
  - Solon: igge, irge
- Southern Tungusic:
  - Central:
    - Oroch: иггэ (igge)
    - Udihe: иги (igi)
  - South-Eastern:
    - Nanai: ӣгэ (īge)
    - Orok: ӣдэ (īdə)
    - Ulch: идег (iʒeg)

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 48
Cincius, V. I. (1975), Сравнительный словарь тунгусо-маньчжурских языков [Comparative Dictionary of Tungus-Manchu Languages] (in Russian), volume 1, Leningrad: Nauka, page 326
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 314.
Doerfer, Gerhard; Knüppel, Michael (2004), Etymologisch-ethnologisches Wörterbuch tungusischer Dialekte, Hildesheim: Olms, page 392