Reconstruction:Proto-Tungusic/pölti

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

*pölti

cheek

Declension

Declension of *pölti

	Singular
Nominative	*pölti
Accusative	*pöltibe
Genitive	*pöltiŋī
Dative	*pöltidüe
Locative	*pöltilē
Ablative	*pöltidiki
Prolative	*pöltili
Elative	*pöltigiʒi
Instrumental	*pöltiʒi
Delative	*pöltilēki
Directive	*pöltitiki
Comitative	*pöltigili

Descendants

Jurchenic:
- Jurchen: 分尺 (fulcin /⁠fun-či⁠/)
  - Manchu: ᡶᡠᠯᠴᡳᠨ (fulcin)
Tungusic:
- Northern Tungusic:
  - Even: хулрэн (hulrən)
  - Evenki: хуллир (hullir, “nose of an animal”)
- Southern Tungusic:
  - South-Eastern:
    - Nanai: полчин (polčin)
    - Orok: пулчи (pulči)

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 46
Cincius, V. I. (1977), Сравнительный словарь тунгусо-маньчжурских языков [Comparative Dictionary of Tungus-Manchu Languages] (in Russian), volume 2, Leningrad: Nauka, page 346
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 318.