Reconstruction:Proto-Tungusic/tege-

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

Verb

*tege- (intransitive)

  1. to sit down

Derived terms

  • *tege(ŋ)kü (chair)

Descendants

  • Jurchenic:
    • Jurchen: (te- /⁠te⁠/)
  • Tungusic:
    • North Tungusic:
    • South Tungusic:
      • Central:
        • Oroch: тэ̄- (tē-)
        • Udihe: тэ̄- (tē-)
      • South-Eastern:
        • Nanai: тэ̄сиури (tēsiuri)
        • Orok: тэ̄сивури (tə̄sivuri)
        • Ulch: тэ̄суву (tēsuwu)

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 30
  • Cincius, V. I. (1977), Сравнительный словарь тунгусо-маньчжурских языков [Comparative Dictionary of Tungus-Manchu Languages] (in Russian), volume 2, Leningrad: Nauka, pages 226-228
  • Doerfer, Gerhard; Knüppel, Michael (2004), Etymologisch-ethnologisches Wörterbuch tungusischer Dialekte, Hildesheim: Olms, page 780
  • 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 289.