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Reconstruction:Proto-Mongolic/juljïgan
Proto-Mongolic
Alternative reconstructions
- *juljagan
Etymology
Perhaps separable into *juljï- + *-gan, with the second element recurring in other animal names.
Noun
*juljïgan
- young of an animal, cub
Descendants
- Middle Mongolian:
- Uighur: ᠵᠤᠯᠵᠢᠭᠨ (ǰulǰiɣn)
- Arabic: جلجاغان, جولجاغان (juljaghan) (Muqaddimat), [script needed] (juljiqan) (Leiden Vocabulary)
- Phags-Pa: ꡆꡟꡙ ꡆꡞ ꡢ ꡋꡟ (jul-ji-q-nu)
- Mongolian:
- Classical: ᠵᠤᠯᠵᠠᠭ
ᠠ (ǰulǰag a) - Khalkha: зулзага (zulzaga)
- Ordos: /d͡ʒʊld͡ʒaɢa/
- Classical: ᠵᠤᠯᠵᠠᠭ
- Buryat: зулзага (zulzaga)
- Khamnigan Mongol: zulzaga(n), zulzugu(n)
- Daur: jieljig
- Kalmyk: зулҗһн (zuljhn), зулзһн (zulzhn) (obsolete)
- Eastern Yugur: jiljighan
- Monguor:
- Mongghul: jilijigha
- Mangghuer: zhuzhughuer
- Bonan:
- Gansu: jenjeghe
- Qinghai: jeljegha
- Kangjia: jinjigha
Further reading
- Nugteren, Hans (2011) Mongolic phonology and the Qinghai-Gansu languages (dissertation), Utrecht: LOT, page 393
- Sanžejev, G. D.; Orlovskaja, M. N.; Ševernina, Z. V. (2016) Etimologičeskij slovarʹ mongolʹskix jazykov: v 3 t. [Etymological dictionary of Mongolic languages: in 3 vols.] (in Russian), volume 2, Moscow: Institute of Oriental Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences, page 90