Reconstruction:Proto-Mongolic/-ge

This Proto-Mongolic 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-Mongolic

Alternative forms

• *-ga

Etymology 1

Suffix

*-ge

1. Suffix creating new word.

Related terms

• *bür-ge (“flea, louse”)
• *giji-ge (“tickle”)
• *keder-ge (“scraper; device for processing skins”)

Etymology 2

Comparable to Proto-Turkic *-ik if Proto-Turkic *kïrk- is compared to *kïrga-.

Suffix

*-ge

1. Forms deverbal verbs, transitive from intransitive and factitive from transitive.

   ‎*bol- (“to be”) + ‎*-ge → ‎*bolga- (“to make”)

   ‎*sur- (“to learn”) + ‎*-ge → ‎*surga- (“to teach”)

Derived terms

Category Proto-Mongolic terms suffixed with *-ge not found

References

1. Poppe, Nicholas (1974) Grammar of Written Mongolian, Harrassowitz, page 61