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Reconstruction:Proto-Mongolic/hünegen
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Proto-Mongolic
Reconstruction
Most languages show *hünegen, the raising or disappearance of the middle vowel in some forms is likely secondary.
Etymology
Analyzable as *hüne- + *-gen, with the second element recurring in other animal names.
Noun
*hünegen
- fox
Descendants
- Middle Mongolian:
- Uyghur: ᠦᠨᠡᠭᠡᠨ (ünegen)
- Arabic: هوناكان (hünegen) (Muqaddimat), هُنْكانْ, هُُونْكان (hüngen) (Leiden manuscript)
- Armenian: հօնքան (hōnkʿan) (Kirakos Gandzaketsi)
- Chinese: 伏捏革 (Beilu Yiyu), [script needed] (hunegen) (Secret History)
- Phags-Pa: ꡜꡠꡟ (heu-) (text damaged)
- Mongolian:
- Classical: ᠦᠨᠡᠭᠡ (ünege)
- Khalkha: үнэг (üneg)
- Ordos: /ʉnege/
- Buryat: үнэгэ(н) (ünege(n))
- Khamnigan Mongol: ünege(n)
- Kalmyk: үнгн (üngn)
- Daur: xunugw
- Eastern Yugur: hönegen, henegen
- Monguor:
- (?) Mangghuer: hundughai
- Mongghul: finiga
- Kangjia: fünigo
- Dongxiang: funiegve, funiegven
- Mogholi: eljigan
Further reading
- Nugteren, Hans (2011) Mongolic phonology and the Qinghai-Gansu languages (dissertation), Utrecht: LOT, page 369