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Reconstruction:Proto-Tungusic/pigin
Proto-Tungusic
Etymology
From Proto-Tungusic *pigi- (“to blow”) + *-n.
Noun
*pigin
- (Tungusic) storm
- (Tungusic) wind
Descendants
- Tungusic:
- North Tungusic:
- Evenki: [script needed] (xigin)
- Negidal: [script needed] (xiğin)
- South Tungusic:
- Udihe: [script needed] (sii)
- →? Orok: [script needed] (sii)
- Udihe: [script needed] (sii)
- North Tungusic:
References
- Starostin, Sergei; Dybo, Anna; Mudrak, Oleg (2003), “*pigi-n”, in Etymological dictionary of the Altaic languages (Handbuch der Orientalistik; VIII.8), Leiden, New York, Köln: E.J. Brill