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Reconstruction:Proto-Mongolic/ïmaxan
Proto-Mongolic
Reconstruction
Buryat shows an unexplained initial n-.
Etymology
Cognate with Khitan [Khitan Small needed] (ê.ma). Related through borrowing or inheritance with Proto-Turkic *ɨmga, compare Old Turkic 𐰢𐰍𐰀 ((a)mɣa).
Possibly dividable into *ïma + *-xan, with the latter found in several other animal names.
Hypernyms
- *boda (“livestock”)
Descendants
- Middle Mongolian:
- Uyghur: ᠢᠮᠠᠭᠠ (imaɣ-a), ᠢᠮᠠᠭᠠᠨ (imaɣan)
- Arabic: ايمان (imãn), ايماآن (imaʾan), ايمهآن (imeʾan)
- Armenian: իման (iman) (Kirakos Gandzaketsi)
- Chinese: 亦麻案 (ima'an) (Beilu Yiyu)
- Mongolian:
- Classical: ᠢᠮᠠᠭᠠ (imaɣ-a)
- Khalkha: ямаа (jamaa)
- Ordos: /jamaː/
- Kalmyk: яман (yaman)
- Buryat: ямаа (jamaa)
- Daur: imaa
- Eastern Yugur: maan
- Monguor:
- Mongghul: yimaa
- Mangghuer: yima
- Bonan: imang
- Kangjia: imo
- Dongxiang: iman
- → Proto-Tungusic: *ïmagan
References
- Nugteren, Hans (2011) Mongolic phonology and the Qinghai-Gansu languages (dissertation), Utrecht: LOT, page 372
- Cincius, V. I. (1975) Sravnitelʹnyj slovarʹ tunguso-manʹčžurskix jazykov: Materialy k etimologičeskomu slovarju [Comparative Dictionary of Tungus-Manchu Languages: Materials for an etymological dictionary] (in Russian), volume 1, Leningrad: Nauka, page 312
- Vasilevič, G. M. (1958) Evɛnkijsko-Russkij slovarʹ [Evenki-Russian dictionary] (in Russian), Moscow: GIS, page 167-168
- Rozycki, William (1994) Mongol Elements in Manchu (Uralic and Altaic series; 157), Bloomington, Indiana: Indiana University, Research Institute for Inner Asian Studies, page 160
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