Reconstruction:Proto-Turkic/öl-

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

Alternative reconstructions

• *höl-

Verb

*öl-

1. (intransitive) to die, to pass away

Derived terms

• *öl-tür- (“to kill”)
• *öl-üm (“death”)

Descendants

• Oghur:
  • Bulgar: وَل (vel)
    • Chuvash: вил (vil)

• Arghu:
  • Khalaj: hölmək
• Oghuz:
  • Old Anatolian Turkish: اُولْمَكْ (ölmäk)
    • Azerbaijani: ölmək
      • → Khalaj: ölmək
    • Gagauz: ölmää
    • Ottoman Turkish: اولمك (ölmek)
      • Turkish: ölmek
  • Salar: ülgüsi
  • Turkmen: ölmek
• Karluk:
  • Uzbek: oʻlmoq
  • Uyghur: ئۆلمەك (ölmek)
• Kipchak:
  • North Kipchak:
    • Bashkir: үлеү (ülew)
    • Tatar: үләргә (ülärgä)
  • West Kipchak:
    • Crimean Tatar: ölmek
    • Kumyk: оьлмек (ölmek)
    • Karaim: [script needed] (oĺ-)
  • East Kipchak:
    • Kyrgyz: өлүү (ölüü)
    • Southern Altai: ӧл- (öl-)
  • South Kipchak:
    • Karakalpak: [script needed] (öl-)
    • Kazakh: өлу (ölu)
    • Nogai: оьлуьв (ölüv)
• Siberian:
  • Old Turkic: 𐰇𐰠 (öl)
  • North Siberian
    • Dolgan: өл
    • Yakut: өл (öl)
  • South Siberian:
    • Sayan:
      • Tofa: [script needed] (öl-)
      • Tuvan: өлүр (ölür)
    • Yenisei:
      • Shor: öл
      • Khakas: öлерге (ölerge)
      • Western Yugur: [script needed] (jül-)
• →? Hungarian: öl (“to kill”)

References

• Starostin, Sergei, Dybo, Anna, Mudrak, Oleg (2003) “*öl-”, in Etymological dictionary of the Altaic languages (Handbuch der Orientalistik; VIII.8)‎^[1], Leiden, New York, Köln: E.J. Brill
• өлүр