Reconstruction:Proto-Tungusic/purka

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

Etymology

Borrowed from Proto-Mongolic *hurka (“lasso”) or its ancestor, itself from Proto-Turkic *uruk (“rope”).

Noun

*purka

lasso

Declension

Declension of *purka

	Singular
Nominative	*purka
Accusative	*purkaba
Genitive	*purkaŋī
Dative	*purkadua
Locative	*purkalā
Ablative	*purkadiki
Prolative	*purkali
Elative	*purkagiʒi
Instrumental	*purkaʒi
Delative	*purkalāki
Directive	*purkatiki
Comitative	*purkagili

Descendants

Jurchenic:
- Manchu: ᡠᡵᡤᠠᠨ (urgan)
Tungusic:
- Northern Tungusic:
  - Even: хурка (hurka)
  - Evenki: хурка (hurka)
  - Negidal: хойка (xojka)
  - Oroqen: ʊrkʊn
  - Solon: aŋaʒi
- Southern Tungusic:
  - Central:
    - Oroch: хукка (xukka)
    - Udihe: хука (xuka)
  - South-Eastern:
    - Nanai: пойка (pojka)
    - Orok: пута (puta)
    - Ulch: пуча (puča)

References

Doerfer, Gerhard (1985), Mongolo-Tungusica (in German), Wiesbaden: O. Harrassowitz, page 18
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 48
Cincius, V. I. (1977), Сравнительный словарь тунгусо-маньчжурских языков [Comparative Dictionary of Tungus-Manchu Languages] (in Russian), volume 2, Leningrad: Nauka, pages 352-353