Reconstruction:Proto-Tungusic/ölse

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

Alternative reconstructions

*höliksä (per Doerfer & Knüppel)
*öli- (per Doerfer)
*xölse (per Benzing)
*ul-(k)se (per EDAL)
*ölse (per Janhunen & Vovin)

Etymology

Derived from *öl +‎ *-se (“class marker”). For similar development, compare *xolsa (“fish”).

Noun

*ölse

meat

Declension

Declension of *ölse

	Singular
Nominative	*ölse
Accusative	*ölsebe
Genitive	*ölseŋī
Dative	*ölsedüe
Locative	*ölselē
Ablative	*ölsediki
Prolative	*ölseli
Elative	*ölsegiʒi
Instrumental	*ölseʒi
Delative	*ölselēki
Directive	*ölsetiki
Comitative	*ölsegili

Descendants

Tungusic:
- Northern Tungusic:
  - Even: улрэ (ulrə)
  - Evenki: уллэ (ullə)
  - Negidal: улэ (ule)
  - Oroqen: ulə
  - Solon: uldi, ulde
- Southern Tungusic:
  - Central:
    - Oroch: улэ (ule)
    - Udihe: улэ (ule)
  - South-Eastern:
    - Nanai: уликсэ (ulikse)
    - Orok: улисэ (ulisə)
    - Ulch: улсэ (ulse)

References

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 69
Cincius, V. I. (1977), Сравнительный словарь тунгусо-маньчжурских языков [Comparative Dictionary of Tungus-Manchu Languages] (in Russian), volume 2, Leningrad: Nauka, page 262
Vovin, Alexander; Janhunen, Juha; de la Fuente, José Andrés Alonso (2023), The Tungusic Languages (Routledge Language Family Series), Abingdon: Routledge, page 39
Doerfer, Gerhard; Knüppel, Michael (2004), Etymologisch-ethnologisches Wörterbuch tungusischer Dialekte, Hildesheim: Olms, page 848