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Reconstruction:Proto-Mongolic/ebür

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

Alternative forms
  • *(h)öber
  • *eber

Etymology

Possibly related to Proto-Mongolic *ebcexün (“chest”), whence Mongolian өвчүү (övčüü), or Proto-Mongolic *emüne (“front, south, anterior”) possibly as a result of secondary nasalization of *b, paralleling the pair *gadar and *gadana.

Noun

*ebür

  1. (anatomy) breast, bosom
  2. inside, internal part
  3. front side
  4. sunny spot, southern slope

Descendants
  • Middle Mongol:
  • Mongolian:
    • Classical Mongolian: ᠡᠪᠦᠷ (ebür)
    • Khalkha Mongolian: өвөр (övör)
    • Ordos Mongolian: /ɵwɵr/
  • Oirat:
  • Buryat: үбэр (über)
  • Daur: heur (with secondary /h-/), eur
  • Qinghai-Gansu:
    • East Yugur: wer
    • Monguor:
    • Bonan: ver
    • Kangjia: ver
    • Dongxiang: o

References
  • Sun Zhu (1990) 蒙古语族语言词典 [Dictionary of Mongolic Languages] (in Chinese), Qinghai, page 537.
  • Nugteren, Hans (2011) Mongolic phonology and the Qinghai-Gansu languages (dissertation)‎, Utrecht: LOT.
  • Haenisch, Erich (1939) Wörterbuch zu Mangḥol un Niuca Tobcaʼan (Yüan-Chʼao Pi-shi) (in German), Leipzig: Harrassowitz, page 41
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