Reconstruction:Proto-Turkic/īŕte-

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 forms

• *īrte-

Etymology

From *īŕ (“trace”).

Verb

*īŕte-

1. (transitive) to search, seek, pursue

Derived terms

• *īŕte-k
• *īŕte-t-
• *īŕte-n-
• *īŕte-l-

Related terms

• *īŕ

Descendants

• Common Turkic: *īzte- ~ *īzde-

• Arghu:
  • Khalaj: hişəmək
• Oghuz:
  • Old Anatolian Turkish: اِسْتَمَكْ (istämäk)
    • Azerbaijani: istəmək
    • Gagauz: istemää
    • Ottoman Turkish: استمك (istemek)
      • Turkish: istemek
        • Cypriot Turkish: isdemek
  • Turkmen: islemek
• Kipchak:
  • Kipchak: [script needed] (izde-) (Codex Cumanicus)
  • North Kipchak
    • Bashkir: эҙлә- (eźlə-), (Eastern) Bashkir: эҙҙә- (eźźə-)
    • Tatar: эзләргә (ezlärgä)
  • South Kipchak
    • Kipchak-Nogai
      • Kazakh: іздеу (ızdeu)
    • Kyrgyz-Kipchak
      • Kyrgyz: изде- (izde-)
      • Southern Altai: исте- (iste-)
• Karluk:
  • Karakhanid: اِسْتاماكْ (istēmēk)
    • Khorezmian Turkic: [script needed] (iste-)
      • Chagatai: [script needed] (iste-)
        • Uyghur: ئىزدىمەك (izdimek)
        • Uzbek: istamoq
• Siberian Turkic:
  • Old Uyghur: [Term?] (/⁠iste-⁠/), [Term?] (/⁠izde-⁠/)
  • North Siberian Turkic:
    • Yakut: ирдээ (irdee)

References

• Clauson, Gerard (1972) “iste:-”, in An Etymological Dictionary of pre-thirteenth-century Turkish, Oxford: Clarendon Press, page 243
• Starostin, Sergei, Dybo, Anna, Mudrak, Oleg (2003) “*īŕ / *ɨ̄ŕ”, in Etymological dictionary of the Altaic languages (Handbuch der Orientalistik; VIII.8), Leiden, New York, Köln: E.J. Brill