Reconstruction:Proto-Turkic/tē-

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

*tē-

1. to say

Descendants

• Oghur:
  • Chuvash: те (te)

• Oghuz:
  • Old Anatolian Turkish: دیمك (demäk)
    • Azerbaijani: demək
    • Gagauz: demää
    • Ottoman Turkish: دیمك (demek), տէմէք (demek) — Armeno-Turkish
      • Turkish: demek
  • Turkmen: diýmek
  • Salar: degüsi
• Kipchak:
  • North Kipchak
    • Tatar: ди (di)
  • Kipchak-Cuman:
    • Crimean Tatar: demek
    • Karachay-Balkar: демек (demek)
    • Kumyk: демек (demek)
    • Urum: дэмэк
  • Kipchak-Nogai:
    • Kazakh: деу (deu)
    • Nogai: дев (dev)
    • Siberian Tatar: [script needed] (ti-)
  • Kyrgyz-Kipchak:
    • Kyrgyz: дөө (döö)
• Karluk:
  • Ili Turki: [script needed] (diy-)
  • Karakhanid: [script needed] (temēk)
    • Khorezmian Turkic:
      • Chagatai:
        • Uyghur: دېمەك (dëmek)
        • Uzbek: demoq
• Siberian Turkic:
  • Old Turkic: 𐱅𐰃 (té-)
  • Old Uyghur: [script needed] (te-)
    • Western Yugur: [script needed] (ti-)
  • North Siberian Turkic:
    • Yakut: диэ (die)
    • Dolgan: диэ
    • Sayan:
      • Tuvan: дээр (deer)
      • Tofa: дэ-

References

• Clauson, Gerard (1972) “té:-”, in An Etymological Dictionary of pre-thirteenth-century Turkish, Oxford: Clarendon Press, page 433
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “demek”, in Nişanyan Sözlük