Reconstruction:Proto-Turkic/küńe

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 forms

• *kuńa

Noun

*küńe

1. moth

Declension

Declension of *küńe

	Singular 3)
Nominative	*küńe
Accusative	*küńeg, *küńeni1)
Genitive	*küńeniŋ
Dative	*küńeke
Locative	*küńede
Ablative	*küńeden
Allative	*küńegerü
Instrumental 2)	*küńen
Equative 2)	*küńeče
Similative 2)	*küńeleyü
Comitative 2)	*küńeligü

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

Descendants

• Oghur:
  • Chuvash: кӗве (kĕve)
• Common Turkic: *küye

• Kipchak:
  • North Kipchak:
    • Bashkir: көйә (köyə)
    • Tatar: көя (köya)
  • South Kipchak:
    • Kazakh: күйе (küie)
  • East Kipchak:
    • Southern Altai: кӱйе (küye)
• Karluk:
  • Uzbek: kuya
• Oghuz:
  • West Oghuz:
    • Azerbaijani: güvə
    • Ottoman Turkish: گوگه (güğe, güve)
      • Turkish: güve
  • East Oghuz:
    • Turkmen: güýe
• Siberian:
  • North Siberian:
    • Yakut: көйүүр (köyüür)

References

• Starostin, Sergei, Dybo, Anna, Mudrak, Oleg (2003) “*küńe / *kuńa”, 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 297
• Sevortjan, E. V. (1980) Etimologičeskij slovarʹ tjurkskix jazykov [Etymological Dictionary of Turkic Languages] (in Russian), volume 3, Moscow: Nauka, page 94