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Reconstruction:Proto-Tungusic/kačikān

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

Maybe from earlier *kaŋčikān. Now can be analyzable as *kači- +‎ -kān. Compared to Proto-Turkic *kaŋčïk (“bitch (female dog); female”), whence Turkish kancık (“female dog”), Kyrgyz канчык (kancık). (Can this(+) etymology be sourced?)

Noun

*kačikān

  1. puppy

Descendants
  • Tungusic:
    • North Tungusic:
      • Evenki: кача (kaça)
      • Even: качикан (kacikan)
      • Negidal: [script needed] (kačịxān)
    • South Tungusic:
      • Central:
      • South-Eastern:
        • Nanai: [script needed] (kejče(kẽ))
        • Orok: [script needed] (kēčike)
        • Ulch:

References
  • Cincius, V. I. (1975) Сравнительный словарь тунгусо-маньчжурских языков [Comparative Dictionary of Tungus-Manchu Languages] (in Russian), volume 1, Leningrad: Nauka, page 385
  • Starostin, Sergei, Dybo, Anna, Mudrak, Oleg (2003) “*kači-kān”, in Etymological dictionary of the Altaic languages (Handbuch der Orientalistik; VIII.8), Leiden, New York, Köln: E.J. Brill
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