Reconstruction:Proto-Turkic/-ŋ

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	E / I	O / U	Ö / Ü
*-ïŋ	*-iŋ	*-uŋ	*-üŋ

Etymology

Nişanyan suggests a crasis from an earlier form *-nig from *-n- +‎ *-ig. Comparable to Proto-Mongolic *-ŋ (“suffix forming deverbal nouns”).

Suffix

*-ŋ

1. Forms deverbal nouns.

   ‎*yal- (“to strip”) + ‎*-ŋ → ‎*yalïŋ (“naked”)

Derived terms

Proto-Turkic terms suffixed with *-ŋ

References

• Erdal, Marcel (1991) Old Turkic Word Formation‎^[1], volume I, Otto Harrassowitz, →ISBN, page 337
• Clauson, Gerard (1972) “”, in An Etymological Dictionary of pre-thirteenth-century Turkish, Oxford: Clarendon Press, page xlv
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “+In”, in Nişanyan Sözlük