Reconstruction:Proto-Turkic/-če

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

preceding vowel
A / Ï / O / U	E / I / Ö / Ü
*-ča	*-če

Suffix

*-če

1. Suffix expressing the equative case.

   ‎*at (“horse”) + ‎*-če → ‎*atča (“like a horse”)

Related terms

• *-ni (“accusative case”)
• *-niŋ (“genitive case”)
• *-de (“locative case”)
• *-den (“ablative case”)
• *-gerü (“allative case”)

Descendants

• Common Turkic:

• Arghu:
  • Khalaj: -çə
• Oghuz:
  • Old Anatolian Turkish:
    • Azerbaijani: -ca, -cə
    • Ottoman Turkish: ـجه (-ce)
      • Turkish: -ca, -ce, -ça, -çe
  • Turkmen: -ja, -je, -ça, -çe
• Karluk:
  • Uyghur: [script needed] (-che)
  • Uzbek: -cha
• Kipchak:
  • West Kipchak:
    • Bashkir: -сә (-sə), -сa (-sa)
  • South Kipchak:
    • Kazakh: -ша (-şa), -ше (-şe)
  • Kyrgyz-Kipchak:
    • Kyrgyz: -чo (-co), -чө (-cö), -чa (-ca), -че (-ce)
    • Southern Altai: -чо (-čo), -чӧ (-čö), -ча (-ča), -че (-če)
• Siberian:
  • Old Turkic: 𐰲𐰀- (-ča)
  • South Siberian:
    • Sayan Turkic:
      • Tuvan: -че (-çe), -же (-je)