Reconstruction:Proto-Turkic/bus-

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

Verb

*bus-

1. (Common Turkic, intransitive) to hide, to lay in ambush

Derived terms

• *bus-ug (“ambush”)
  • Oghuz:
    • Ottoman Turkish: پوصو (pusu), پوسو (pusu), پصو (pusu), پسو (pusu), پوصی (pusı), پوسی (pusı)
      • Turkish: pusu
  • Karluk:
    • Karakhanid: بُسُغْ (pusuɣ)

Descendants

• Common Turkic:

• Oghuz:
  • Old Anatolian Turkish:
    • Azerbaijani: pusmaq
    • Ottoman Turkish: پوصمق (pusmak)
      • Turkish: pusmak
  • Turkmen: busmak
• Karluk:
  • Karakhanid: [script needed] (busmāk)
    • Uzbek: pismoq
• Kipchak:
  • North Kipchak:
    • Bashkir: боҫоу (bośow)
    • Tatar: посу (posu)
• Siberian:
  • Old Uyghur: [script needed] (bus-)

References

• Clauson, Gerard (1972) “bus-”, in An Etymological Dictionary of pre-thirteenth-century Turkish, Oxford: Clarendon Press, page 371
• Starostin, Sergei, Dybo, Anna, Mudrak, Oleg (2003) “*bus-”, in Etymological dictionary of the Altaic languages (Handbuch der Orientalistik; VIII.8)‎^[1], Leiden, New York, Köln: E.J. Brill