Reconstruction:Proto-Mongolic/juljïgan

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 reconstructions

• *juljagan

Etymology

Perhaps separable into *juljï- +‎ *-gan, with the second element recurring in other animal names.

Noun

*juljïgan

1. young of an animal, cub

Descendants

• 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:
  • Classical: ᠵᠤᠯᠵᠠᠭ
    ᠠ (ǰulǰag a)
  • Khalkha Mongolian: зулзага (zulzaga)
  • Ordos: /d͡ʒʊld͡ʒaɢa/
• Buryat: зулзага (zulzaga)
• Khamnigan Mongol: zulzaga(n), zulzugu(n)
• Daur: jieljig
• Kalmyk: зулҗһн (zuljğn), зулзһн (zulzğn) (obsolete)
• East Yugur: jiljighan
• Monguor:
  • Mongghul: jilijigha
  • Mangghuer: zhuzhughuer
• Bonan:
  • Gansu: jenjeghe
  • Qinghai: jeljegha
• Kangjia: jinjigha
• Dongxiang: zhunzhagva

Further reading

• 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