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Reconstruction:Proto-Tungusic/mundukān
Proto-Tungusic
Etymology
Analyzable as *mundu- + -kān .Compared to Proto-Mongolic *mönde-le. Whence also Mongolian мөндөл (möndöl, “young of a tarbagan”), молтогчин (moltogčin).
Noun
*mundukān
- (Northern Tungusic) hare
- Synonyms: *tuksakī, *tuksan
Descendants
- Tungusic:
- North Tungusic:
- Evenki: мундука̄н (mundukān)
- Even: му̇нру̇ӄан (mu̇nru̇qan)
- Negidal: [script needed] (monoxān)
- North Tungusic:
References
- Cincius, V. I. (1975) Sravnitelʹnyj slovarʹ tunguso-manʹčžurskix jazykov: Materialy k etimologičeskomu slovarju [Comparative Dictionary of Tungus-Manchu Languages: Materials for an etymological dictionary] (in Russian), volume 1, Leningrad: Nauka, page 556
- Starostin, Sergei; Dybo, Anna; Mudrak, Oleg (2003), “*mundukān”, in Etymological dictionary of the Altaic languages (Handbuch der Orientalistik; VIII.8), Leiden, New York, Köln: E.J. Brill