Reconstruction:Proto-Tungusic/xigdipǖn

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

*xïgdïpōn (per Doerfer & Knüppel)

Etymology

From *xigdi- (“to comb”) +‎ *-pǖn.

Noun

*xigdipǖn

comb

Declension

Declension of *xigdipǖn

	Singular
Nominative	*xigdipǖn
Accusative	*xigdipǖnbe
Genitive	*xigdipǖnŋī
Dative	*xigdipǖndüe
Locative	*xigdipǖnlē
Ablative	*xigdipǖndiki
Prolative	*xigdipǖnli
Elative	*xigdipǖngiʒi
Instrumental	*xigdipǖnʒi
Delative	*xigdipǖnlēki
Directive	*xigdipǖntiki
Comitative	*xigdipǖngili

Related terms

*xigdi- (“to comb”)

Descendants

Jurchenic:
- Jurchen: 亦的伏 (ijifun /⁠i-di-fu⁠/)
  - Manchu: ᡳᠵᡳᡶ᠋ᡠᠨ (ijifun)
Tungusic:
- Northern Tungusic:
  - Even: идун (idun) (< игдывун (igdiwun))
  - Evenki: игдывӯн (igdiwūn)
  - Negidal: егдивун (egdiwun)
  - Oroqen: ɪgdɪwʊn
  - Solon: iddun
- Southern Tungusic:
  - Central:
    - Oroch: игду (igdu)
  - South-Eastern:
    - Nanai: сигдипун (sigʒipun)
    - Orok: сигдипу(н) (sigdipu(n))
    - Ulch: сигдупу(н) (sigdupu(n))

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 53
Cincius, V. I. (1975), Сравнительный словарь тунгусо-маньчжурских языков [Comparative Dictionary of Tungus-Manchu Languages] (in Russian), volume 1, Leningrad: Nauka, pages 296-297
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 253.
Doerfer, Gerhard; Knüppel, Michael (2004), Etymologisch-ethnologisches Wörterbuch tungusischer Dialekte, Hildesheim: Olms, page 392