Reconstruction:Proto-Turkic/imen

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

Alternative reconstructions

• *ermen

Noun

*imen

1. oak

Declension

Declension of *imen

	singular 3)
nominative	*imen
accusative	*imenig, *imenni1)
genitive	*imenniŋ
dative	*imenke
locative	*imente
ablative	*imenten
allative	*imengerü
instrumental 2)	*imenin
equative 2)	*imenče
similative 2)	*imenleyü
comitative 2)	*imenligü

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: юман (juman)

• Oghuz:
  • East Oghuz:
    • Turkmen: imen
• Karluk:
  • Uyghur: ئېمەن (ëmen)
  • Uzbek: eman
• Kipchak:
  • West Kipchak:
    • Crimean Tatar: emen
    • Karachay-Balkar: эмен (emen)
    • Kumyk: эмен (emen)
  • South Kipchak:
    • Kazakh: емен (emen)
  • Nort Kipchak:
    • Bashkir: имән (imən)
    • Tatar: имән (imän)
  • Kyrgyz-Kipchak:
    • Southern Altai: эрмен (ermen)
• Siberian:
  • South Siberian:
    • Yeniseian:
      • Khakas: ибен (iben)

References

• Starostin, Sergei, Dybo, Anna, Mudrak, Oleg (2003) “*imen”, in Etymological dictionary of the Altaic languages (Handbuch der Orientalistik; VIII.8)‎^[1], Leiden, New York, Köln: E.J. Brill
• Räsänen, Martti (1969) Versuch eines etymologischen Wörterbuchs der Türksprachen (in German), Helsinki: Suomalais-ugrilainen seura, page 42
• Tenišev E. R., editor (1984–2006), Sravnitelʹno-istoričeskaja grammatika tjurkskix jazykov: [Comparative Historical Grammar of Turkic Languages:] (in Russian), Moscow: Nauka, page 124