Reconstruction:Proto-Turkic/eyekü

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

Noun

*eyekü

1. side, upper rib

Declension

Declension of *eyekü

	singular 3)
nominative	*eyekü
accusative	*eyeküg, *eyeküni1)
genitive	*eyekünüŋ
dative	*eyeküke
locative	*eyeküde
ablative	*eyeküden
allative	*eyekügerü
instrumental 2)	*eyekün
equative 2)	*eyeküče
similative 2)	*eyeküleyü
comitative 2)	*eyekülügü

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.

Derived terms

• *ayaku-č (?)
  • North Siberian:
    • Dolgan: ойогос (oyogos)
    • Yakut: ойоҕос (oyoğos)

Descendants

• Oghur:
  • Chuvash: аяк (ajak)
• Common Turkic:

• Proto-Oghuz:
  • West Oghuz:
    • Ottoman Turkish:
      • Turkish: eyeği
• Karluk:
  • Karakhanid: اَياكُو (eyegü, “side”)
• Siberian:
  • South Siberian:
    • Sayan:
      • Tuvan: ээги (eegi)
      • Tofa: ээги (eegi)

References

• Clauson, Gerard (1972) “”, in An Etymological Dictionary of pre-thirteenth-century Turkish, Oxford: Clarendon Press, page 272
• Räsänen, Martti (1969) Versuch eines etymologischen Wörterbuchs der Türksprachen (in German), Helsinki: Suomalais-ugrilainen seura, page 38
• Tenišev E. R., editor (1984–2006), Sravnitelʹno-istoričeskaja grammatika tjurkskix jazykov: [Comparative Historical Grammar of Turkic Languages:] (in Russian), Moscow: Nauka, page 275
• Starostin, Sergei, Dybo, Anna, Mudrak, Oleg (2003) “*eyekü”, in Etymological dictionary of the Altaic languages (Handbuch der Orientalistik; VIII.8)‎^[1], Leiden, New York, Köln: E.J. Brill