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Reconstruction:Proto-Mongolic/bulugan
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This Proto-Mongolic entry contains reconstructed words 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
Reconstruction
Ordos and Yugur point towards *bulagan and Sino-Mongolic sources and Persian loan show *bulugan, while some languages derive from an early syncopated form *bulgan.
Daur and Yugur exhibit delabialization due to initial *b-.
Etymology
Starostin et al propose a connection with Middle Japanese ふるき (furuki, “a kind of sable”).
Perhaps separable into *bulu- + *-gan, with the second element recurring in other animal names.
Descendants
- Middle Mongolian:
- Arabic: بولغان (bulɣan) (Muqaddimat)
- Chinese: 補剌哈 (Beilu Yiyu), [script needed] (buluqan) (Secret History)
- Mongolian:
- Classical: ᠪᠤᠯᠠᠭᠠ (bulaɣ-a)
- Khalkha: булга (bulga)
- Ordos: /bʊlaɢa/
- Buryat: булга(н) (bulga(n))
- Khamnigan Mongol: bulga(n)
- Kalmyk: булһн (bulhn)
- Daur: baleg
- Eastern Yugur: balaghan, bulaghan (“marten”)
- Mongghul: [Term?] (bulgha)
- → Persian: بلغان (buluğān)
- → Uyghur: [script needed] (bulγan)
Further reading
- Nugteren, Hans (2011) Mongolic phonology and the Qinghai-Gansu languages (dissertation), Utrecht: LOT, page 290
- Doerfer, Gerhard (1963), “94. بلغان”, in Türkische und mongolische Elemente im Neupersischen [Turkic and Mongolian Elements in New Persian] (Akademie der Wissenschaften und der Literatur: Veröffentlichungen der Orientalischen Kommission; 16) (in German), volume 1, Wiesbaden: Franz Steiner Verlag, page 215
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