Reconstruction:Proto-Turkic/-sire

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 2

preceding vowel
A / Ï / O / U	E / I / Ö / Ü
*-sïra	*-sire

Etymology

From *-siŕ +‎ *-e.

Suffix

*-sire

1. (Old Turkic) Suffix creating a verb with the meaning of "to be without, to be deprived of" from a noun.

   ‎*ȫg (“mind”) + ‎*-sire → ‎*ȫgsire- (“to faint”)

Derived terms

• *köŕ-sire- (“to become blinded”)
  • *köŕ-sire-gen (“mole”)
• *ȫg-sire- (“to faint”)

Descendants

• Common Turkic:

• Siberian:
  • Old Turkic: [script needed] (sire-)
  • Old Uyghur: [script needed] (sire-)
• Kipchak
  • South Kipchak
    • Nogai: -сире (-sire)
  • East Kipchak
    • Kyrgyz: -сире (-sire), -сүрө (-sürö)
    • Southern Altai: -зире (-zire), -зӱре (-züre), -сире (-sire), -сӱре (-süre)

References

• Clauson, Gerard (1972) “-sıra:/-sire:-”, in An Etymological Dictionary of pre-thirteenth-century Turkish, Oxford: Clarendon Press, page xlv

Derived terms

Category Proto-Turkic terms suffixed with *-sire not found