Reconstruction:Proto-Mongolic/küjüxün

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

Perhaps segmentable as *küjü +‎ *-xün, the latter being a common ending in anatomical terms. As in *terixün (“head”).

Noun

*küjüxün

1. neck

See also

• *koxalaï (“throat”)

Descendants

• Middle Mongol:
  • Mongolian: ᠬᠦᠵᠦᠭᠦᠨ (küǰügün)
  • Arabic: كوجون (küjün), كوجوون (küjüün), كوجووون (küjüwün) (Muqaddimat)
  • Chinese: 苦出文 (kuchuwun) (Beilu Yiyu)
• Mongolian:
  • Classical: ᠬᠦᠵᠦᠭᠦ (küǰügü)
  • Written: ᠬᠦᠵᠦᠭᠦᠦ (küǰügüü)
  • Khalkha Mongolian: хүзүү (xüzüü)
  • Ordos: /kʰʉd͡ʒʉː/
• Buryat: хүзүү(н) (xüzüü(n))
  • Khamnigan Mongol: күзүү(н)
• Kalmyk: күзүн (küzün)
• Daur: xujuu
• East Yugur: güjüün
• Monguor:
  • Mongghul: guji
  • Mangghuer: guji
• Bonan: gujung
• Kangjia: güjün
• Dongxiang: ghuzhun, ghuzhen
• Mogholi: kujun, kuzhun
• (?) → Tuvan: күжү (küjü, “nozzle of the bellows”)

References

• Nugteren, Hans (2011) Mongolic phonology and the Qinghai-Gansu languages (dissertation)‎^[1], Utrecht: LOT, page 435