Reconstruction:Proto-Mongolic/hüker

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

Etymology

From an earlier *höker, borrowed from Proto-Turkic *höküŕ.

A tentative reading of the Brahmi Bugut inscription by Vovin, claimed to be written in the Ruran language, reads a word as "pü[ker]-ner", translated as "oxen",[1] a cognate word if the reading is in fact correct.

Noun

*hüker

  1. ox, bovine

Descendants

  • Middle Mongol:
    Mongolian script: ᠦᠺᠡᠷ (ʾwykʾr /⁠üker⁠/)
    ʼPhags-pa script ꡜꡦꡟ
    ꡁꡦꡘ     (heu-kʼer /⁠hüker⁠/)
    Arabic script: هُوكَرْ (hūkar /⁠hüker⁠/) (Kitab Majmu' Tarjuman Turki wa 'Ajami wa Mughali wa Farsi), اوكر (ʾwkr /⁠üker⁠/) (Rasulid Hexaglot)
    • Central Mongolic:
      • Classical Mongolian: ᠦᠬᠡᠷ (üker)
      • Written Oirat:
    • Daur: xukur
    • Southern Mongolic:
      • East Yugur: hgor
      • Shirongolic:
        • Dongxiang: fugie
        • Monguor: fuguor
    • → Evenki: уку (uku), укур (ukur), хукур (hukur)
    • → Even: хөкэн (hökən), хөкөн (hökön, “cow”)

References

  1. ^ Vovin, Alexander (2019), “A Sketch of the Earliest Mongolic Languages: the Brahmi Bugut and Khuis Tolgoi Inscriptions”, in Academia.edu‎[1]

Further reading

  • Nugteren, Hans (2011), Mongolic phonology and the Qinghai-Gansu languages (dissertation)‎[2], Utrecht: LOT, page 367
  • Sanžejev, G. D.; Orlovskaja, M. N.; Ševernina, Z. V. (2015–), Etimologičeskij slovarʹ mongolʹskix jazykov: v 3 t. [Etymological dictionary of Mongolic languages: in 3 vols.] (in Russian), volume III, Moscow: Institute of Oriental Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences, page 209
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