Reconstruction:Proto-Turkic/-egü

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

• *-agu
• *-gü
• *-gu

Suffix

*-egü

1. Suffix creating collective of numbers.

Derived terms

• *-egün (“suffix creating collective of numbers”)

Related terms

• *bīr-egü (“individual, group of one”)
• *ẹk(k)i-gü (“group of two”)
• *üč-egü (“group of three”)
• *-inči (“suffix creating ordinal numbers”)
• *-rer (“suffix creating distributive of numbers”)

Descendants

• Common Turkic: *-agu

• Oghuz:
  • Old Anatolian Turkish:
  • Azerbaijani: -ov, -öv
    • Ottoman Turkish:
      • Turkish: -ey
• Karluk:
  • Chagatai:
    • Uzbek: -ov
• Kipchak:
  • West Kipchak:
    • Karachay-Balkar: -еу (-yeu)
    • Kumyk: -ев (-yew)
  • North Kipchak:
    • Bashkir: -әү (-əw)
    • Tatar: -әү (-äw), -ау (-aw)
  • South Kipchak:
    • Aral:
      • Kazakh: -еу (-eu)
    • Kirgiz-Kipchak:
      • Kyrgyz: -өө (-öö)
      • Southern Altai: -ӱ (-ü)
• Siberian:
  • Old Turkic: 𐰏𐰇 (-egü)

References

• Erdal, Marcel (2004) “+(A)gU”, in A Grammar of Old Turkic (Handbook of Oriental Studies. Section 8 Uralic & Central Asian Studies; 3), Brill Academic Publishers, →ISBN, page 225

Derived terms

Proto-Turkic terms suffixed with *-egü