Reconstruction:Proto-Turkic/köpek

This Proto-Turkic 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-Turkic

Noun

*köpek

1. (Oghuz Turkic) dog
2. hound
3. sheepdog
4. (Kipchak Turkic) puppy

Declension

Declension of *köpek

	Singular 3)
Nominative	*köpek
Accusative	*köpekni, *köpekig 4), *köpeknig 1)
Genitive	*köpekniŋ
Dative	*köpekke
Locative	*köpekde
Ablative	*köpekden
Allative	*köpekgerü
Instrumental 2)	*köpekin
Equative 2)	*köpekče
Similative 2)	*köpekleyü
Comitative 2)	*köpekligü

¹⁾ Possibly in Pre-Proto-Turkic.
²⁾ The original instrumental, equative, similative & comitative cases have fallen into disuse in many modern Turkic languages.
³⁾ Plurality is disputed in Proto-Turkic. See also the notes on the Proto-Turkic/Locative-ablative case and plurality page in Wikibooks.
⁴⁾ Found in the Old Turkic era.

Descendants

• Common Turkic:

• →? Russian: кобе́ль (kobélʹ)
• → Written Oirat: [script needed] (köbö, “name of a hero”)
• Oghuz:
  • Old Anatolian Turkish:
    • Azerbaijani: köpək
    • Ottoman Turkish: كوپك (köpek)
      • Gagauz: köpek
      • Turkish: köpek
  • Turkmen: köpek
• Karluk:
  • Karakhanid: [script needed] (köpek)
    • Uzbek: koʻppak
• Kipchak:
  • South Kipchak:
    • Caspian:
      • Karakalpak: көпек
      • Kazakh: көпек (köpek)
    • Kyrgyz-Kipchak:
      • Southern Altai: [script needed] (köbök)
  • West Kipchak:
    • Crimean Tatar: köpek
    • Karaim: [script needed] (köpe)
    • Kumyk: кёбелек (köbelek), гёбен ит (göben it)
    • → Hungarian: kopó
    • → Turkish: göbelek (dialectal)

References

• Starostin, Sergei, Dybo, Anna, Mudrak, Oleg (2003) “*köpek”, in Etymological dictionary of the Altaic languages (Handbuch der Orientalistik; VIII.8), Leiden, New York, Köln: E.J. Brill