Reconstruction:Proto-Turkic/bū

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

Pronoun

*bū

1. (Common Turkic) this

Declension

Declension of *bū (pronominal-n declension)

	Singular
Nominative	*bū
Accusative	*būnï
Genitive	*būnïŋ
Dative	*būŋa
Locative	*būnta
Ablative	*būntan
Allative 1)	*būŋaru
Instrumental 1)	*būnïn
Equative 1)	*būnča
Similative 1)	*būnlayu
Comitative 1)	*būnlugu

1) The original allative, instrumental, equative, similative & comitative cases have fallen into disuse in many modern Turkic languages.

Descendants

• Common Turkic: *bū

• Arghu:
  • Khalaj: bô
• Oghuz:
  • West Oghuz:
    • Old Anatolian Turkish: [script needed] (bu)
      • Azerbaijani: bu
      • Ottoman Turkish: بو (bu)
        • Turkish: bu
        • Gagauz: bu
  • Oghuz-Uyghur:
    • Salar: bu
  • East Oghuz:
    • Turkmen: bu
• Karluk:
  • Karakhanid: [script needed] (bū)
    • Chagatai: [script needed] (bu)
      • Uyghur: [script needed] (bu)
      • Uzbek: bu
• Kipchak:
  • North Kipchak:
    • Bashkir: был (bıl)
    • Tatar: бу (bu)
  • West Kipchak:
    • Crimeaic Kipchak:
      • Crimean Tatar: bo
      • Crimean Tatar: бу (bu)
    • Karachay-Balkar: бу (bu)
    • Karaim: бу (bu)
    • Kumyk: бу (bu)
  • South Kipchak:
    • Karakalpak: bul
    • Kazakh: бул (bul)
    • Nogai: бу (bu)
  • East Kipchak:
    • Kyrgyz: бул (bul)
    • Southern Altai: бу (bu)
• Siberian:
  • Old Turkic: 𐰉𐰆 (bu)
    • Old Uyghur: bw (bu)
      • Western Yugur: pu
  • North Siberian:
    • Dolgan: бу
    • Yakut: бу (bu)
  • South Siberian:
    • Sayan Turkic:
      • Tofa: бо
      • Tuvan: бо (bo)
    • Yeniseian Turkic:
      • Khakas: пу (pu)
      • Shor: пу

References

• Clauson, Gerard (1972) “bu:”, in An Etymological Dictionary of pre-thirteenth-century Turkish, Oxford: Clarendon Press, page 292
• al-Kashgarî, Mahmud (1072–1074) Besim Atalay, transl., Divanü Lûgat-it-Türk Tercümesi [Translation of the “Compendium of the languages of the Turks”] (Türk Dil Kurumu Yayınları; 521) (in Turkish), 1985 edition, Ankara: Türk Tarih Kurmu Basımevi, published 1939–1943
• Sevortjan, E. V. (1978) Etimologičeskij slovarʹ tjurkskix jazykov [Etymological Dictionary of Turkic Languages] (in Russian), volume II, Moscow: Nauka, page 225
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “bu”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Räsänen, Martti (1969) Versuch eines etymologischen Wörterbuchs der Türksprachen (in German), Helsinki: Suomalais-ugrilainen seura, page 85
• Starostin, Sergei, Dybo, Anna, Mudrak, Oleg (2003) “*bu(-n)”, in Etymological dictionary of the Altaic languages (Handbuch der Orientalistik; VIII.8)‎^[1], Leiden, New York, Köln: E.J. Brill
• Tekin, Talât (1995) Türk Dillerinde Birincil Uzun Ünlüler [Primary Long Vowels in Turkic Languages] (Türk Dilleri Araştırmaları Dizisi; 13)‎^[2], Ankara: T.C. Kültür Bakanlığı, →ISBN, page 177