Reconstruction:Proto-Mongolic/gal
Proto-Mongolic
editReconstruction
editPalatalization in Dagur is unexpected, which also occurs in *gar, *ger and *seül.
Noun
edit*gal
Descendants
edit- Middle Mongol:
- Arabic: [script needed] (ɣal) (Muqaddimat), [script needed] (qaːl) (Leiden Vocabulary) (Istanbul Vocabulary)
- Chinese: [Term?] (“qal”) (Secret History) (Yue-Yi Yiyu)
- Mongolian:
- Buryat: гал (gal)
- Khamnigan Mongol: gal
- Kalmyk: һал (ğal)
- Daur: galʲ
- East Yugur: ɣal
- Monguor:
- Kangjia: χar
- Dongxiang: khan
- Mogholi: ɣoːl, ğɔl
Further reading
edit- Nugteren, Hans (2011) Mongolic phonology and the Qinghai-Gansu languages (dissertation)[1], Utrecht: LOT, page 337
- Sun Zhu (1990) 蒙古语族语言词典 [Dictionary of Mongolic Languages] (in Chinese), Qinghai, page 279