Early Serbi-Mongolic‑Tungusic lexical contact: Jurchen numerals from the 室韋 Shirwi (Shih-wei) in North China
Chapter
Publication Date:
2018
abstract:
This paper proposes that the attested Jurchen numerals for 11-19 are probably reflexes of Archaic Jurchen numerals borrowed from the Serbi (Xianbei)-Mongolic language of the Shirwi (Shih-wei).
Iris type:
2.1 Contributo in volume (Capitolo o Saggio)
Keywords:
numerals, Jurchen, Manchu, Mongolian, Shiwei, Xianbei, loanwords, borrowing, historical-comparative linguistics, phonological reconstruction, Turkic, Kitan, Khitan
List of contributors:
Shimunek, ANDREW ERIC
Book title:
Philology of the Grasslands: Essays in Mongolic, Turkic, and Tungusic Studies