ᠮᠣᠩᠭᠣᠯ

Mongolian

Etymology

From Classical Mongolian ᠮᠣᠩᠭᠣᠯ (moŋɣol), from Middle Mongol ᠮᠣᠩᠬᠣᠯ (moŋqol).

Compare also Buryat монгол (mongol), Written Oirat ᡏᡆᡊᡎᡆᠯ (mongɣol), Kalmyk моңһл (moñğl); Tuvan моол (mool), Khakas моол (mool), Southern Altai моҥол (moŋol); Jurchen [script needed] (*moŋgu), Manchu ᠮᠣᠩᡤᠣ (monggo); etc.

Sükhbataar (1992) and de la Vaissière (2021) derive this ethonym from the personal name of the Rouran Khaganate's progenitor, who is known in Chinese-language sources as 木骨閭 (MC muwk kwot ljo);[1][2] the original Tuoba word, meaning 首禿 "bald-headed" and cognate with Middle Mongol [script needed] (muqular, “bald, hornless”) (> Mongolian мухар (muxar, “bald, hornless, tailless; blunt, dull”)), has been reconstructed as muqo-lo ~ moqo-lo by Vovin (2007: 200-202)[3] and mʊqʊlɪ by Shimunek (2017: 147-148).[4]

Pronunciation

Noun

ᠮᠣᠩᠭᠣᠯ • (moŋɣol) (Cyrillic spelling монгол (mongol), definite plural ᠮᠣᠩᠭᠣᠯᠴᠤᠳ)

  1. Mongol, Mongolian (person, people)

Declension
    Declension of ᠮᠣᠩᠭᠣᠯ
 
nominative ᠮᠣᠩᠭᠣᠯ (moŋɣol)
genitive ᠮᠣᠩᠭᠣᠯ ᠤᠨ (moŋɣol-un)
substantive genitive ᠮᠣᠩᠭᠣᠯ ᠳᠤ (moŋɣol-du)
dative-locative ᠮᠣᠩᠭᠣᠯ ᠢ (moŋɣol-i)
definite accusative ᠮᠣᠩᠭᠣᠯ ᠠᠴᠠ (moŋɣol-ača)
ablative ᠮᠣᠩᠭᠣᠯ ᠢᠶᠠᠷ (moŋɣol-iyar)
instrumental ᠮᠣᠩᠭᠣᠯ ᠲᠠᠢ (moŋɣol-tai)
comitative ᠮᠣᠩᠭᠣᠯ ᠷᠤ (moŋɣol-ru)
directional [Term?]

Adjective

ᠮᠣᠩᠭᠣᠯ • (moŋɣol) (Cyrillic spelling монгол (mongol))

  1. Mongol, Mongolian
    ᠮᠣᠩᠭᠣᠯ
    ᠬᠡᠯᠡ
    moŋɣol kele
    Mongolian language

References
  1. Г. Сүхбаатар (1992) “Монгол Нирун улс [Mongol Nirun (Rouran) state]”, in Монголын эртний түүх судлал, III боть [Historiography of Ancient Mongolia, Volume III] (in Mongolian), volume 3, pages 330–550
  2. de la Vaissière, É. (2021). “The Origin of the Name ‘Mongol’”. International Journal of Eurasian Linguistics, 3(2), 266-271. tentative draft
  3. Vovin, A. (2007). “Once Again on the Tabgač Language”. Mongolian Studies, 29, 191–206. http://www.jstor.org/stable/43193441
  4. Shimunek, Andrew E (2017) Languages of Ancient Southern Mongolia and North China: A Historical-Comparative Study of the Serbi or Xianbei Branch of the Serbi-Mongolic Language Family, with an Analysis of Northeastern Frontier Chinese and Old Tibetan Phonology
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