Reconstruction:Proto-Mongolic/yosun

This Proto-Mongolic 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-Mongolic

Etymology

Perhaps suffixed with *-sun, but the root is unknown. ESMJa also compares *yobu-.

Noun

*yosun

  1. custom, habit, rule

Descendants

  • Middle Mongol:
    Han Script: [Term?] (/⁠yosu(n)⁠/) (Secret History of the Mongols)
    Mongolian Script: ᠶᠣᠰᠤ (yosu)
    • Central Mongolic:
    • Daur: [Term?] (/⁠yɔs⁠/)
    • Southern Mongolic:
      • East Yugur: [Term?] (/⁠yɔsɔ⁠/), [Term?] (/⁠yosə⁠/)
      • Shirongolic:
        • Monguor:
          • ⇒ Mangghuer: [Term?] (/⁠yosla-⁠/)
    • → Chagatai: یوسون (ywswn /⁠yosun⁠/)
    • → Kyrgyz: жосун (josun)
    • → Old Uyghur: [Term?] (/⁠yosun⁠/)
    • → Tuvan: ёзу (yozu)

Further reading

  • Nugteren, Hans (2011), Mongolic phonology and the Qinghai-Gansu languages (dissertation)‎[1], Utrecht: LOT, page 546
  • Sanžejev, G. D.; Orlovskaja, M. N.; Ševernina, Z. V. (2015–), “yosun”, in Etimologičeskij slovarʹ mongolʹskix jazykov: v 3 t. [Etymological dictionary of Mongolic languages: in 3 vols.] (in Russian), Moscow: Institute of Oriental Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences, page 227
  • Khabtagaeva, Bayarma (2009), Mongolic Elements in Tuvan, Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, page 38
  • Doerfer, Gerhard (1975), Türkische und mongolische Elemente im Neupersischen [Turkic and Mongolian Elements in New Persian] (Akademie der Wissenschaften und der Literatur: Veröffentlichungen der Orientalischen Kommission; 21)‎[2] (in German), volume IV, Wiesbaden: Franz Steiner Verlag, § 408, page 402
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