Reconstruction:Proto-Tungusic/umukta

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

  • *umūkta (per EDAL)

Etymology

Either from *umu (“nest”) or *umū- (“to lay eggs”) +‎ *-kta. Compare also *umun (“nest, hollow”).

Compared to Proto-Mongolic *ömdexen (“egg”) and Proto-Turkic *yumurtka (“egg”) by Tenišev and Doerfer. However such comparisons are likely a coincidence -and not relevant anymore- and not accepted by mainstream academia.

Tenišev proposes an earlier *umurkta.[1]

Noun

*umukta

  1. egg

Declension

Declension of *umukta
Singular
Nominative *umukta
Accusative *umuktaba
Genitive *umuktaŋī
Dative *umuktadua
Locative *umuktalā
Ablative *umuktadiki
Prolative *umuktali
Elative *umuktagiʒi
Instrumental *umuktaʒi
Delative *umuktalāki
Directive *umuktatiki
Comitative *umuktagili

Descendants

  • Jurchenic:
    • Manchu: ᡠᠮᡥᠠᠨ (umhan)
  • Tungusic:

References

  1. ^ Tenišev E. R., editor (1984–2006), Sravnitelʹno-istoričeskaja grammatika tjurkskix jazykov: [Comparative Historical Grammar of Turkic Languages:] (in Russian), Moscow: Nauka, page 149
  • Cincius, V. I. (1977), Сравнительный словарь тунгусо-маньчжурских языков [Comparative Dictionary of Tungus-Manchu Languages] (in Russian), volume 2, Leningrad: Nauka, page 269
  • Doerfer, Gerhard; Knüppel, Michael (2004), Etymologisch-ethnologisches Wörterbuch tungusischer Dialekte, Hildesheim: Olms, page 868
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