Reconstruction:Proto-Turkic/ōk

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

• *ūk

Etymology

Clauson states that, owing to the supposed ceremonial and ritual uses of arrows in Turkic cultures, the word for arrow, *ok, may have influenced this root and *ōk (“shared inheritance”).

Noun

*ōk

1. kin, tribe

   Synonym: *bod

Declension

Declension of *ōk

	singular 3)
nominative	*ōk
accusative	*ōkug, *ōknï1)
genitive	*ōknuŋ
dative	*ōkka
locative	*ōkda
ablative	*ōkdan
allative	*ōkgaru
instrumental 2)	*ōkun
equative 2)	*ōkča
similative 2)	*ōklayu
comitative 2)	*ōklugu

¹⁾ Originally used only in pronominal declension.
²⁾ The original instrumental, equative, similative, and comitative cases have fallen into disuse in many modern Turkic languages.
³⁾ Plurality in Proto-Turkic is disputed. See also the notes on the Proto-Turkic/Locative-ablative case and plurality page on Wikibooks.

Derived terms

• >? Proto-Turkic: *ōkuŕ

Descendants

• Oghur
  • Chuvash: йӑх (jăh)
• Common Turkic:

• Oghuz:
  • >? Turkish: ok atmak (dial.)
• Karluk:
  • Karakhanid: اُوقْ (ōq, “share of inheritance”)
• Kypchak:
  • Kypchak-Nogai:
    • Kazakh: [script needed] (ŭq) (dialectal)
• Siberian:
  • South Siberian:
    • Old Turkic: 𐰸 (uq ~ oq, “kin, tribe”)
    • Sayan:
      • Tuvan: ук (uk)

References

• Clauson, Gerard (1972) “O:k "a share of an inheritance"”, in An Etymological Dictionary of pre-thirteenth-century Turkish, Oxford: Clarendon Press, page 76