Reconstruction:Proto-Tungusic/giramsa

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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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Alternative Reconstructions

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Reconstruction Notes

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EDAL possibly reconstructs as *giramksa because of the preservation of the *-k- in Nanai, but clearly other descendants reflect otherwise.

Etymology

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Possibly from *giram- +‎ *-sa.

Some of descendants presumably show exhibit assimilative change *giramsa > *giramza > **giramna, **giramra; which also happened in *xolsa (fish) and *nansa (skin).

Noun

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*giramsa

  1. bone
  2. skeleton

Declension

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Descendants

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References

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  • 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 [Comparative Dictionary of Tungus-Manchu Languages] (in Russian), volume 1, Leningrad: Nauka, page 154
  • Kane, Daniel (1989) The Sino-Jurchen Vocabulary of the Bureau of Interpreters (Uralic and Altaic Series; vol. 153), Bloomington, Indiana: Research Institute for Inner Asian Studies, Indiana University, →ISBN, page 317.