Reconstruction:Proto-Tungusic/buga

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

Noun

*buga

1. place
2. earth, world, land

   Synonyms: *dunse, *nā

3. heaven, sky

Declension

Declension of *buga

	Singular
Nominative	*buga
Accusative	*bugaba
Genitive	*bugaŋī
Dative	*bugadua
Locative	*bugala
Ablative	*bugadiki
Prolative	*bugali
Elative	*bugagiʒi
Instrumental	*bugaʒi
Delative	*bugalāki
Directive	*bugatiki
Comitative	*bugagili

Proper noun

*Buga

1. Buga, the main deity of Tungusic creation myth.

Descendants

• Jurchenic:
  • Bala: 巴 (ba)
  • Jurchen: 巴 (ba /⁠ba⁠/)
    • Manchu: ᠪᠠ (ba)
• Tungusic:
  • North Tungusic:
    • Even: буг (ʙug)
    • Evenki: буга (buga)
    • Negidal: бога (boga)
    • Oroqen: bʊɣa (“place”), bʊwa (“sky, heaven”)
    • Solon: buga
  • South Tungusic:
    • Central:
      • Oroch: буа (bua)
      • Udihe: буа (bua, “nature; God”)
    • South-Eastern:
      • Nanai: боа (boa)
      • Orok: бо̄ (bō), боа (boa)
      • Ulch: ба̄ (bā), буа (bua)

References

• Benzing, Johannes (1955) Die tungusischen Sprachen. Versuch einer vergleichenden Grammatik (Abhandlungen der Geistes- und Sozialwissenschaftlichen Klasse; 11) (in German), Wiesbaden: Verlag der Akademie der Wissenschaften und der Literatur in Mainz in Kommission bei Franz Steiner Verlag, page 24
• Cincius, V. I. (1975) Сравнительный словарь тунгусо-маньчжурских языков [Comparative Dictionary of Tungus-Manchu Languages] (in Russian), volume 1, Leningrad: Nauka, page 100
• Kane, Daniel (1989) The Sino-Jurchen Vocabulary of the Bureau of Interpreters (Uralic and Altaic Series; vol. 153), Bloomington, Indiana: Research Institute for Inner Asian Studies, Indiana University, →ISBN, page 289.