Reconstruction:Proto-Turkic/öŋüč

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

*öŋüč

1. windpipe

Declension

Declension of *öŋüč

	singular 3)
nominative	*öŋüč
accusative	*öŋüčüg, *öŋüčni1)
genitive	*öŋüčnüŋ
dative	*öŋüčke
locative	*öŋüčde
ablative	*öŋüčden
allative	*öŋüčgerü
instrumental 2)	*öŋüčün
equative 2)	*öŋüčče
similative 2)	*öŋüčleyü
comitative 2)	*öŋüčlügü

¹⁾ Originally used only in pronominal declension.
²⁾ The original instrumental, equative, similative, and comitative cases have fallen into disuse in many modern Turkic languages.
³⁾ Plurality in Proto-Turkic is disputed. See also the notes on the Proto-Turkic/Locative-ablative case and plurality page on Wikibooks.

Descendants

• Medieval
  • Old Uyghur: [script needed] (öŋüč)
• Karluk
  • Uzbek: onggach
• Kipchak
  • West Kipchak
    • Kumyk: оьнгеч (öñeç, “gullet”)
  • North Kipchak
    • Bashkir: үңәс (üñəs, “gullet”)
    • Tatar: үңәч (üñäç, “gullet”), үңеч (üñeç, “gullet”)
  • South Kipchak
    • Caspian
      • Kazakh: өңеш (öñeş)
      • Karakalpak: o'ngesh
    • Kyrgyz-Kipchak
      • Kyrgyz: өңөч (öŋöc)
      • Southern Altai: ӧӧч (ööč, “gullet”), ӧҥӧч (öŋöč)
• Siberian
  • North Siberian
    • Yakut: өҥүс (öñüs), үҥүс (üñüs)
  • South Siberian
    • Sayan Turkic
      • Tuvan: өөш (ööş, “gullet”)
    • Yenisei Turkic
      • Shor: ӧӧс (öös, “rib (of body)”)
      • Khakas: ӧӧс (“rib (of body)”)

Further reading

• Starostin, Sergei, Dybo, Anna, Mudrak, Oleg (2003) “*öŋüč”, in Etymological dictionary of the Altaic languages (Handbuch der Orientalistik; VIII.8), Leiden, New York, Köln: E.J. Brill
• Clauson, Gerard (1972) “öŋüç”, in An Etymological Dictionary of pre-thirteenth-century Turkish, Oxford: Clarendon Press, page 172