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 (kançık). (Can this⁽⁺⁾ etymology be sourced?)

Noun

*kačikān

puppy

Descendants

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

References

Cincius, V. I. (1975) Sravnitelʹnyj slovarʹ tunguso-manʹčžurskix jazykov: Materialy k etimologičeskomu slovarju [Comparative Dictionary of Tungus-Manchu Languages: Materials for an etymological dictionary] (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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