Reconstruction:Proto-Tungusic/xepī-

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

*xebī-
*xupī- (Based on Southern-Tungusic)

Verb

*xepī-

(transitive, intransitive) to play
*Xepīnbi.
I am playing.

*Xepīnsi.
You are playing.

*Xepīʒenbi.
I'll play later.

Derived terms

*xepīlü- (“to start playing”)
*xepīn (“game”)

Descendants

Jurchenic:
- Jurchen: 額非必 (efibi /⁠e-fi-bi⁠/)
  - Manchu: ᡝᡶᡳᠮᠪᡳ (efimbi)
Tungusic:
- Northern Tungusic:
  - Even: эвидэй (əwidəj)
  - Evenki: эвӣдемӣ (əwīʒemī)
  - Negidal: эвӣ- (ewī-)
  - Oroqen: əwi-
  - Solon: ugī-
- Southern Tungusic:
  - Central:
    - Oroch: эви- (ewi-)
  - South-Eastern:
    - Nanai: хупиури (hupiuri)
    - Orok: хупивури (hupivuri)
    - Ulch: хупуву (xupuwu)

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 58
Cincius, V. I. (1975), Сравнительный словарь тунгусо-маньчжурских языков [Comparative Dictionary of Tungus-Manchu Languages] (in Russian), volume 1, Leningrad: Nauka, page 483
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 279.