Reconstruction:Proto-Tungusic/putakān

This Proto-Tungusic 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-Tungusic

Etymology

Perhaps from earlier *pubta-kān, now can be analyzable as *puta- +‎ -kān. Compare Proto-Mongolic *huxuta, whence Mongolian уут (uut).

Noun

*putakān

sack, bag

Descendants

Jurchen:
- Literary Manchu: [script needed] (fintaχa)
Tungusic:
- North Tungusic:
  - Evenki: [script needed] (hutakān)
    - → Dolgan: Һутака, утака
  - Even: [script needed] (hụtqan)
  - Negidal: [script needed] (xotakān)
- South Tungusic:
  - Central:
    - Oroch: [script needed] (xuta(ka))
    - Udihe: [script needed] (xut`a)
  - South-Eastern:
    - Nanai: [script needed] (pōtačã)
    - Orok: [script needed] (pụta)
    - Ulch: [script needed] (pụta(n))

References

Cincius, V. I. (1977) Sravnitelʹnyj slovarʹ tunguso-manʹčžurskix jazykov: Materialy k etimologičeskomu slovarju [Comparative Dictionary of Tungus-Manchu Languages: Materials for an etymological dictionary] (in Russian), volume 2, Leningrad: Nauka, page 356
Starostin, Sergei; Dybo, Anna; Mudrak, Oleg (2003), “*puta-kān”, in Etymological dictionary of the Altaic languages (Handbuch der Orientalistik; VIII.8), Leiden, New York, Köln: E.J. Brill