Shimunek (2017) reconstructs some Tuyuhun words as:[5]
‘second person singular pronoun (爾)’: *čʰɪ [處] (northern
Early Middle Chinese **tśʰɨ); Vovin (2015) reconstructs *čʰo, a 2nd person singular pronoun, equivalent to Mongolic či. The correspondence between /o/ and /i/ is attested between Mongolic and Khitan, cf. Western
Middle Mongolictaqiya vs. Khitan t[i].qo.a.[6]
*-čin/*-čiñ [ན་] (
Old Tibetan *ʧin) ‘having X (possessive)’
*-yin/*-yiñ [寅] (northern
Early Middle Chinese **yir̃) ‘genitive-attributive suffix’
References
^Shimunek, Andrew E (2017). Languages of Ancient Southern Mongolia and North China: A Historical-Comparative Study of the Serbi or Xianbei Branch of the Serbi-Mongolic Language Family, with an Analysis of Northeastern Frontier Chinese and Old Tibetan Phonology.
^Pelliot, Paul. 1921. "Note sur les Tou-yu-houen et les Sou-p'i." T'oung Pao, Second Series, Vol. 20, No. 5 (Dec. 1920 - Dec. 1921), pp.323-331.
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abShimunek, Andrew (2017). Languages of Ancient Southern Mongolia and North China: a Historical-Comparative Study of the Serbi or Xianbei Branch of the Serbi-Mongolic Language Family, with an Analysis of Northeastern Frontier Chinese and Old Tibetan Phonology. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag.
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