Reconstruction:Proto-Turkic/bürtük

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

From Proto-Turkic *bür.

Noun

*bürtük

1. grain

Declension

Declension of *bürtük

	Singular 3)
Nominative	*bürtük
Accusative	*bürtüküg, *bürtükni1)
Genitive	*bürtüknüŋ
Dative	*bürtükke
Locative	*bürtükde
Ablative	*bürtükden
Allative	*bürtükgerü
Instrumental 2)	*bürtükün
Equative 2)	*bürtükče
Similative 2)	*bürtükleyü
Comitative 2)	*bürtüklügü

¹⁾ Originally only in pronominal declension.
²⁾ The original instrumental, equative, similative & comitative cases have fallen into disuse in many modern Turkic languages.
³⁾ Plurality is disputed in Proto-Turkic. See also the notes on the Proto-Turkic/Locative-ablative case and plurality page in Wikibooks.

Descendants

• Oghur:
  • Volga Bulgar: برت (bürtü)
    • Chuvash: пӗрчӗ (pĕrč̬ĕ)
    • → Eastern Mari: пырче (pyrče)
• Common Turkic:

• Oghuz:
  • Old Anatolian Turkish:
    • Azerbaijani: pürtük (“powder, dust”)
    • Ottoman Turkish:
      • Turkish: pürtük (“tuberose, grain”) (meaning of grain is dialect in Düzce, Kastamonu, Çorum, Gaziantep, Yozgat, Kırşehir, Kayseri, Niğde)
• Kipchak:
  • North Kipchak:
    • Bashkir: бөртөк (börtök)
    • Tatar: бөртек (börtek)
  • West Kipchak:
    • Crimean Tatar: bürtük
    • Kumyk: [script needed] (bürtük)
    • Karachay-Balkar: бюртюк (bürtük)
    • Karaim: бюртюк
    • →? Turkish: bürtük (dial. in Istanbul, 1965)
  • South Kipchak:
    • Caspian:
      • Kazakh: бүртік (bürtık)
      • Nogai: [script needed] (bürtik)
      • Karakalpak: bürtik
    • Kyrgyz-Kipchak:
      • Kyrgyz: бүртүк (bürtük)
• Siberian:
  • Yakut: бурдук (burduk)