Reconstruction:Proto-Turkic/čok-

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.

See also: Reconstruction:Proto-Turkic/čōk

Proto-Turkic

Verb

*čok-

to swoop down (bird)
to peck out
to delve, dig
to pick at
to stab
to pick (eyes)

Noun

*čok-

pitfall, delve

Descendants

Oghuz:
- Old Anatolian Turkish:
  - Ottoman Turkish: چوقمق (çokmak)
    - Turkish: çokmak (dial.)
  - Ottoman Turkish: چوقور (çukur)
    - Turkish: çukur
- Turkmen: çokmak, çokdurmak
Karluk:
- Karakhanid: جُقْماقْ (çokmāk, “to swoop down (bird)”), جُقْتُرْماقْ (çokturmāk, “to set against (bird)”)^[1]
Kipchak:
- >? Southern Altai: [script needed] (čoq-)
- East Kipchak:
  - Kyrgyz: чокуу (cokuu, “to peck”)
  - Southern Altai: чокуур (čokuur, “to peck”)

References

^ al-Kashgarî, Mahmud (1072–1074) Besim Atalay, transl., Divanü Lûgat-it-Türk Tercümesi [Translation of the “Compendium of the languages of the Turks”] (Türk Dil Kurumu Yayınları; 521) (in Turkish), 1985 edition, volume II, Ankara: Türk Tarih Kurmu Basımevi, published 1939–1943, pages 17, 181

Clauson, Gerard (1972) “”, in An Etymological Dictionary of pre-thirteenth-century Turkish, Oxford: Clarendon Press, page 406
XIII. Yüzyılından Beri Türkiye Türkçesiyle Yazılmış Kitaplarından Toplanan Tanıklarıyle Tarama Sözlüğü (Türk Dil Kurumu yayınları; 212)‎^[1] (in Turkish), Ankara: Türk Dil Kurumu, 1963–1977
Starostin, Sergei, Dybo, Anna, Mudrak, Oleg (2003) “*čok”, in Etymological dictionary of the Altaic languages (Handbuch der Orientalistik; VIII.8), Leiden, New York, Köln: E.J. Brill

[1] -Kashgarî, Mahmud (1072–1074) Besim Atalay, transl., Divanü Lûgat-it-Türk Tercümesi [Translation of the “Compendium of the languages of the Turks”] (Türk Dil Kurumu Yayınları; 521) (in Turkish), 1985 edition, volume II, Ankara: Türk Tarih Kurmu Basımevi, published 1939–1943, pages 17, 181

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