Reconstruction:Proto-Mongolic/ǰulǰïgan
Proto-Mongolic
editAlternative reconstructions
editEtymology
editPerhaps separable into *ǰulǰï- + *-gan, with the second element recurring in other animal names.
Noun
edit*ǰulǰïgan
- young of an animal, cub
Descendants
edit- Middle Mongol:
- Mongolian: ᠵᠤᠯᠵᠢᠭᠨ (ǰulǰiɣn)
- Arabic: جلجاغان, جولجاغان (juljaghan) (Muqaddimat), [script needed] (juljiqan) (Leiden Vocabulary)
- Phags-Pa: ꡆꡟꡙ
ꡆꡞ
ꡢ
ꡋꡟ (jul-ji-q-nu)
- Mongolian:
- Buryat: зулзага (zulzaga)
- Khamnigan Mongol: zulzaga(n), zulzugu(n)
- Daur: jieljig
- Kalmyk: зулҗһн (zuljğn), зулзһн (zulzğn) (obsolete)
- East Yugur: jiljighan
- Monguor:
- Mangghuer: zhuzhughuer
- Mongghul: jilijigha
- Bonan:
- Kangjia: jinjigha
- Dongxiang: zhunzhagva
Further reading
edit- Nugteren, Hans (2011) Mongolic phonology and the Qinghai-Gansu languages (dissertation)[1], Utrecht: LOT, page 393
- Sanžejev, G. D., Orlovskaja, M. N., Ševernina, Z. V. (2016) Etimologičeskij slovarʹ mongolʹskix jazykov: v 3 t. [Etymological dictionary of Mongolic languages: in 3 vols.] (in Russian), volume 2, Moscow: Institute of Oriental Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences, page 90