Reconstruction:Proto-Mongolic/sirexe

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

Etymology

Perhaps related to Karakhanid سَرُو‎ (serü, “shelf”). Compare also Khakas сірирге (sírirge, “to support”).

Noun

*sirexe

table

Descendants

Middle Mongolian: شيره‎ (širẽ)
Mongolian:
- Classical: ᠰᠢᠷᠡᠭᠡ (sirege)
- Khalkha: ширээ (širee)
- Ordos: /ʃireː/
Kalmyk: ширә (şirä)
Buryat: шэрээ (šeree)
- Khamnigan Mongol: ширээ, шэрээ, сирөө
Daur: shiree
Eastern Yugur: shere
- → Western Yugur: shire
Monguor:
- Mongghul: xrai
- Mangghuer: shiri
Dongxiang: shire
? Bonan: shile (perhaps from Tibetan ཤིང་ལེབ (shing leb))
Turkic:
- → Chagatai: شيره‎ (širä, “little table for serving food”)
  - Uyghur: شىرە‎ (shire)
- → Ottoman Turkish: شيره‎ (šire)
- → Shor: шире (“throne”)
- → Southern Altai: ширее (širee, “throne”)
- → Tuvan: ширээ (šïrää, “table used for special occasions”)
- → Salar: [script needed] (šira, “table, throne, elevation”)
Tungusic:
- → Evenki: ширэ (şirə, “bed”) (Nerchinsk)
- → Solon: ширэ̄ (şirə̄)
→ Persian: شیره‎ (šīre, “small table”), شیرهچی‎ (šīrečī, “butler”) (from *sirexeci)

References

Doerfer, Gerhard (1963) 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 367
Nugteren, Hans (2011) Mongolic phonology and the Qinghai-Gansu languages (dissertation)‎, Utrecht: LOT, page 497
Starostin, Sergei; Dybo, Anna; Mudrak, Oleg (2003) Etymological dictionary of the Altaic languages (Handbuch der Orientalistik; VIII.8)‎, Leiden, New York, Köln: E.J. Brill

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