Reconstruction:Proto-Mongolic/buka

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

Etymology

From Proto-Turkic *buka, perhaps related with *bugu (“stag”).

Noun

*buka

1. bull

Hypernyms

• *hüker (“bovine, ox”)

Coordinate terms

• *ünixen (“cow”)

Descendants

• Buryat: буха (buxa)
• Daur: bag
• Dongxiang: bagvachou (with a diminutive suffix)
• East Yugur: pigqa
• Khamnigan Mongol: buxa
• Middle Mongol:

  Hanzi: 補哈 (buqa) (Beilu Yiyu)

  • Classical Mongolian: ᠪᠤᠬ
    ᠠ (buk a)
  • Mongolian: бух (bux) (Khalkha), /bʊxa/ (Ordos)
• Monguor:

  Mongghul: bugha

  Mangghuer: bugha

• → Proto-Tungusic:
  • Evenki: бука (buka)
  • Manchu: ᠪᡠᡴᠠ (buka, “breeding ram”), ᠪᡠᡥᠠ (buha, “beast”)
  • Solon: буха

References

• Nugteren, Hans (2011) Mongolic phonology and the Qinghai-Gansu languages (dissertation)‎^[1], Utrecht: LOT, page 290
• Cincius, V. I. (1975) Сравнительный словарь тунгусо-маньчжурских языков [Comparative Dictionary of Tungus-Manchu Languages] (in Russian), volume 1, Leningrad: Nauka, pages 103-104
• Rozycki, William Vincent (1994) Mongol Elements in Manchu (Uralic and Altaic series; 157), Bloomington, Indiana: Indiana University, Research Institute for Inner Asian Studies, page 59