Reconstruction:Proto-Tungusic/sïgūn

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

Alternative reconstructions

*sigūn (per EDAL)
*sïgōn (per Doerfer & Knüppel)

Noun

*sïgūn

sun
Coordinate term: *biaga (“moon”)

Declension

Declension of *sïgūn

	Singular
Nominative	*sïgūn
Accusative	*sïgūnba
Genitive	*sïgūnŋī
Dative	*sïgūndua
Locative	*sïgūnlā
Ablative	*sïgūndiki
Prolative	*sïgūnli
Elative	*sïgūngiʒi
Instrumental	*sïgūnʒi
Delative	*sïgūnlāki
Directive	*sïgūntiki
Comitative	*sïgūngili

Descendants

Jurchenic:
- Jurchen: 受温 (šun /⁠šeu-un⁠/)
  - Manchu: ᡧᡠᠨ (šun)
Tungusic:
- Northern Tungusic:
  - Evenki: сигӯн (sigūn)
  - Negidal: сигун (sigun), сивун (siwun), сийун (sijun)
  - Oroqen: ʃiwun
  - Solon: sigu
- Southern Tungusic:
  - Central:
    - Oroch: сэу(н) (seu(n), “sunny place”)
    - Udihe: сӯ (sū)
  - South-Eastern:
    - Nanai: сиун (siun)
    - Orok: су(н) (su(n))
    - Ulch: сиу (siu)

References

Cincius, V. I. (1977), Сравнительный словарь тунгусо-маньчжурских языков [Comparative Dictionary of Tungus-Manchu Languages] (in Russian), volume 2, Leningrad: Nauka, page 78
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 135.
Doerfer, Gerhard; Knüppel, Michael (2004), Etymologisch-ethnologisches Wörterbuch tungusischer Dialekte, Hildesheim: Olms, page 718