Reconstruction:Proto-Turkic/bańak

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

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Noun

*bańak

1. animal dung

Descendants

• Common Turkic:

• Oghuz: بَيْنَقْ (baynaq, “dung”)
• Kipchak: [script needed] (maya:q)
• Karluk:
  • Karakhanid: مَيَقْ (mayaq, “dung of camel or sheep”), مَژَكْ (mejek, “dog dung”)
    • Chagatai:
      • Uyghur: [script needed] (mayaq)
• Siberian:
  • Old Turkic:
    • Old Uyghur: [script needed] (mayaq, “dung”)
  • South Siberian:
    • Tuvan: [script needed] (mıyaq)

References

• Clauson, Gerard (1972) “”, in An Etymological Dictionary of pre-thirteenth-century Turkish, Oxford: Clarendon Press, page 350
• 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, volume III, Ankara: Türk Tarih Kurmu Basımevi, published 1939–1943, pages 167, 175
• 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, volume I, Ankara: Türk Tarih Kurmu Basımevi, published 1939–1943, page 392
• Ölmez, M. (2021). Some Notes on Old Uyghur mayaq and ügi. Ancient Texts and Languages of Ethnic Groups along the Silk Road, Johannes Reckel and Merle Schatz (Eds.), Göttingen. pp. 153-158.