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Reconstruction:Proto-Mongolic/sirexe

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

Perhaps related to Karakhanid سَرُو (serü, “shelf”). Compare also Khakas сірирге (sìrirge, “to support”).

Noun

*sirexe

  1. table

Descendants
  • Middle Mongol: شيره (širẽ)
  • Mongolian:
    • Classical Mongolian: ᠰᠢᠷᠡᠭᠡ (sirege)
    • Khalkha Mongolian: ширээ (širee)
    • Ordos: /ʃireː/
  • Kalmyk: ширә (şirä)
  • Buryat: шэрээ (šeree)
    • Khamnigan Mongol: ширээ, шэрээ, сирөө
  • Daur: shiree
  • East Yugur: shere
  • Monguor:
    • Mongghul: xrai
    • Mangghuer: shiri
  • Dongxiang: shire
  • ? Bonan: shile (perhaps from Tibetan ཤིང་ལེབ (shing leb))
  • Turkic:
    • → Chagatai: شيره (širä, “little table for serving food”)
      • Uyghur: شىرە (shire)
    • → Ottoman Turkish: شیره (šire)
    • → Shor: шире (“throne”)
    • → Southern Altai: ширее (širee, “throne”)
    • → Tuvan: ширээ (şiree, “table used for special occasions”)
    • → Salar: [script needed] (šira, “table, throne, elevation”)
  • Tungusic:
    • → Evenki: ширэ (şirə, “bed”) (Nerchinsk)
    • → Evenki: ширэ̄ (şirə̄)
  • → Persian: شیره (šire, “small table”), شیرهچی (šīrečī, “butler”) (from *sirexeci)

References
  • Doerfer, Gerhard (1963) Türkische und mongolische Elemente im Neupersischen [Turkic and Mongolian Elements in New Persian] (Akademie der Wissenschaften und der Literatur: Veröffentlichungen der Orientalischen Kommission; 16)‎ (in German), volume 1, Wiesbaden: Franz Steiner Verlag, page 367
  • Nugteren, Hans (2011) Mongolic phonology and the Qinghai-Gansu languages (dissertation)‎, Utrecht: LOT, page 497
  • Starostin, Sergei, Dybo, Anna, Mudrak, Oleg (2003) Etymological dictionary of the Altaic languages (Handbuch der Orientalistik; VIII.8), Leiden, New York, Köln: E.J. Brill
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