Reconstruction:Proto-Turkic/(y)ip-

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

Etymology

Uncertain, historically multiple conflicting forms exist; *yipin, *yipgin & *yipgil. Clauson regards *yipin to be the original form and considers it a foreign borrowing with *-g- being added on to Turkify the word.

Adjective

*(y)ip-

1. (Common Turkic) purple, violet, dark red

Descendants

• Karluk:
  • Karakhanid: [script needed] (yipin, yipkil, yipkin)
    • Chagatai: [script needed] (epgin, “black fabric”), [script needed] (ipgin, “black fabric”)
• Kipchak: [script needed] (ipkin)
  • West Kipchak:
    • Karaim: ipkin
  • →? Chuvash: йӗпкӗн (jĕpkĕn, “dense (of colors)”)
• Siberian:
  • Old Turkic:
    • Old Uyghur: [script needed] (yipin), [script needed] (yipün), [script needed] (yipkin), [script needed] (yipgin)
  • South Siberian:
    • Sayan Turkic:
      • Tuvan: өкпең (ökpeñ)

See also

Colors in Proto-Turkic · *boduglar, *bodugsāyïn (layout · text)

*āk, *ürüŋ	*boŕ, *sūr, *kuba, *čāl, *oń	*kara
*kïŕïl; *āl	*koŋur, *yạgïŕ	*siarïg, *yẹgren
	*yāĺïl
	*kȫk
	*(y)ip-

References

• Clauson, Gerard (1972) “yipgil/yipgin”, in An Etymological Dictionary of pre-thirteenth-century Turkish, Oxford: Clarendon Press, pages 875-876
• Starostin, Sergei, Dybo, Anna, Mudrak, Oleg (2003) “*(j)ip-”, in Etymological dictionary of the Altaic languages (Handbuch der Orientalistik; VIII.8)‎^[1], Leiden, New York, Köln: E.J. Brill