Reconstruction:Proto-Turkic/ānt

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

*ānt

1. oath

Declension

Declension of *ānt

	Singular 3)
Nominative	*ānt
Accusative	*āntïg, *āntnï1)
Genitive	*āntnïŋ
Dative	*āntka
Locative	*āntda
Ablative	*āntdan
Allative	*āntgaru
Instrumental 2)	*āntïn
Equative 2)	*āntča
Similative 2)	*āntlayu
Comitative 2)	*āntlïgu

¹⁾ Originally only in pronominal declension.
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.

Descendants

• Common Turkic:

• Arghu:
  • Khalaj: ând
• Proto-Oghuz:
  • West Oghuz:
    • Azerbaijani: and
    • Ottoman Turkish: آند (and)
      • Turkish: ant
  • East Oghuz:
    • Turkmen: ant
• Karluk:
  • Uyghur: ئانت (ant)
  • Uzbek: ont
• Kipchak:
  • North Kipchak:
    • Bashkir: ант (ant)
    • Tatar: ант (ant)
  • West Kipchak:
    • Karachay-Balkar: ант (ant)
    • Kumyk: ант (ant)
    • Krymchak: ант
  • South Kipchak:
    • Karakalpak: ант (ant)
    • Kazakh: ант (ant)
    • Nogai: ант (ant)
  • East Kipchak:
    • Kyrgyz: ант (ant)
    • ⇒ Southern Altai: антыгар (antïgar, “to prove”), антык (antïk)
• Siberian:
  • Old Turkic: 𐰦 (ant)
  • Old Uyghur: [script needed] (ant-)
    • Western Yugur: at

References

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