Reconstruction:Proto-Turkic/burgu

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 *bur- (“to bend”) +‎ *-gu. Compared to Proto-Mongolic *bürijen (“trumpet, trumpet horn”). (Can this⁽⁺⁾ etymology be sourced?)

Noun

*burgu

trumpet
pipe (of a plant)
horn

Declension

Declension of *burgu
	singular ³⁾
nominative	*burgu
accusative	burgug, burgunï¹⁾
genitive	*burgunuŋ
dative	*burguka
locative	*burguda
ablative	*burgudan
allative	*burgugaru
instrumental ²⁾	*burgun
equative ²⁾	*burguča
similative ²⁾	*burgulayu
comitative ²⁾	*burgulugu

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

Descendants

Oghur:
- Chuvash: пӑрӑх (părăh)
Common Turkic:

Oghuz:
- Proto-Oghuz: *burɣu
  - Old Anatolian Turkish:
    - Azerbaijani: boru
    - Ottoman Turkish: بورو (boru)
      - Turkish: boru
Karluk:
- Karakhanid:
  - Khorezmian Turkic:
    - Chagatai:
      - Uzbek: moʻri, burgʻu
      - Uyghur: بۇرغا (burgha)
Kipchak:
- Kipchak:
  - North Kipchak:
    - Bashkir: борғо (borğo)
  - East Kipchak:
    - Southern Altai: буру (buru, “guilt”)
Siberian:
- Old Turkic: [script needed] (burğu)
- South Siberian:
  - Sayan:
    - Tuvan: мурғу (“pipe made of a plant stem”)
  - Yenisei:
    - Khakas: пырғы (pırğı, “hunting horn”)

References

Starostin, Sergei, Dybo, Anna, Mudrak, Oleg (2003) “*burgu”, in Etymological dictionary of the Altaic languages (Handbuch der Orientalistik; VIII.8)‎^[1], Leiden, New York, Köln: E.J. Brill
Clauson, Gerard (1972) “”, in An Etymological Dictionary of pre-thirteenth-century Turkish, Oxford: Clarendon Press, page 361