Reconstruction:Proto-Turkic/čekürtke

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

*čekürtke

1. (Common Turkic) grasshopper, locust

Declension

Declension of *čekürtke (Common Turkic)

	singular	plural2)
nominative	*čekürtke	*čekürtkeler
accusative
genitive	*čekürtkeniŋ	*čekürtkelerniŋ
dative	*čekürtkeke	*čekürtkelerke
locative	*čekürtkede	*čekürtkelerde
ablative	*čekürtkeden	*čekürtkelerden
instrumental1)		*čekürtkelerin
equative1)	*čekürtkeče	*čekürtkelerče

¹⁾The original instrumental and equative cases have fallen into disuse in many Common Turkic languages.
²⁾This plural suffix is used only on Common Turkic, and not in Oghur. See also the notes on the Proto-Turkic/Locative-ablative case and plurality page on Wikibooks.

Descendants

• Oghuz:
  • Old Anatolian Turkish:
    • Azerbaijani: çəyirtkə
    • Ottoman Turkish: چكركه (çekirge)
      • Turkish: çekirge
    • Gagauz: çekirgä
  • East Oghuz:
    • Turkmen: çekirtge
• Karluk
  • Uzbek: chigirtka
  • Uyghur: چىكەتكە (chiketke)
  • Middle Turkic
    • Karakhanid: چَكُرْكا (çekürge)
• Kipchak
  • West Kipchak
    • Crimean Tatar: sekirge, çegertki
    • Karachay-Balkar: сенгирчке (señirçke)
    • Karaim: [script needed] (çegirtke)
  • North Kipchak
    • Bashkir: сиңерткә (siñertkə)
    • Tatar: чикерткә (çikertkä)
  • South Kipchak
    • Kazakh: шегіртке (şegırtke)
    • Nogai: [script needed] (şegertki)
  • East Kipchak
    • Kyrgyz: чегиртке (cegirtke)
    • Southern Altai: чегертки (čegertki)
• Siberian
  • North Siberian:
    • Yakut: сахсырҕа (saqsırğa, “fly”)
    • Dolgan: һаксырга (“fly”)
  • Sayan
    • Tuvan: шерги (şergi)

References

• Clauson, Gerard (1972) “”, in An Etymological Dictionary of pre-thirteenth-century Turkish, Oxford: Clarendon Press, pages 416-417
• Räsänen, Martti (1969) Versuch eines etymologischen Wörterbuchs der Türksprachen (in German), Helsinki: Suomalais-ugrilainen seura, page 103
• Starostin, Sergei, Dybo, Anna, Mudrak, Oleg (2003) “*čekü-rtke”, in Etymological dictionary of the Altaic languages (Handbuch der Orientalistik; VIII.8)‎^[1], Leiden, New York, Köln: E.J. Brill
• Tenišev E. R., editor (1984–2006), Sravnitelʹno-istoričeskaja grammatika tjurkskix jazykov: [Comparative Historical Grammar of Turkic Languages:] (in Russian), Moscow: Nauka, page 187