Reconstruction:Proto-Tungusic/nansa

This Proto-Tungusic 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-Tungusic

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Etymology

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Most of descendants exhibit assimilative change *nansa > *nanza > **nanna, **nanra, **nandra. [1]

Perhaps analyzable as *na- +‎ *-nsa.

The suffix *-nsa possibly denoting nouns related to nature and life forms; compare *xabdansa (leaf), *dunse (earth) and *sugʒansa (fish) etc.

Noun

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*nansa

  1. human skin
    Synonym: *xerekte
  2. animal skin

Declencion

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Descendants

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References

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  1. ^ Fuchs, Walter, Lopatin, Ivan A., Menges, Karl, Denis, Sinor (1968) Tungusologie (Handbuch der Orientalistik; V.3), Leiden and Köln: Brill, page 49
  • Benzing, Johannes (1955) Die tungusischen Sprachen. Versuch einer vergleichenden Grammatik (Abhandlungen der Geistes- und Sozialwissenschaftlichen Klasse; 11) (in German), Wiesbaden: Verlag der Akademie der Wissenschaften und der Literatur in Mainz in Kommission bei Franz Steiner Verlag, page 70
  • Cincius, V. I. (1975) Сравнительный словарь тунгусо-маньчжурских языков (in Russian), volume 1, Leningrad: Nauka, pages 583-584, 606