Reconstruction:Proto-Mongolic/kuxur

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

From Proto-Turkic *kopuŕ. See also Proto-Turkic *topïk.

Noun

*kuxur

lute

Descendants

Middle Mongol: ᠬᠤᠭᠤᠷ (quɣur)
Buryat: хуур (xuur)
Daur: koor
East Yugur: xuur
Kalmyk: хуур (huur), хур (hur)
Mongolian: ᠬᠤᠭᠤᠷ (quɣur)
- Khalkha Mongolian: хуур (xuur)
- → Chinese: 胡兀兒／胡兀儿 (húwù'ér)
→ Evenki: кӯр (kūr) (Nerchinsk)
?→ Jurchen: qūr
(from *quxurci)→ Persian قهورچی‎ (quhūrchī, “fiddler”) (obsolete)

References

Nugteren, Hans (2011) Mongolic phonology and the Qinghai-Gansu languages (dissertation)‎, Utrecht: LOT, page 434