Reconstruction:Proto-Turkic/küre-

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

Etymology

Compared to Proto-Mongolic *kura- (“to gather, collect”), Proto-Tungusic *xeru- (“to rake up; to sweep”) by EDAL.

Verb

*küre-

1. (transitive) to rake

Descendants

• Oghur:
  • ⇒ Chuvash: кĕреҫе (kĕreś̬e, “spade, shovel”)
• Common Turkic:

• Arghu:
  • ⇒ Khalaj: kürgək
• Oghuz:
  • Old Anatolian Turkish: کُرُمَک (kürümek)
    • Azerbaijani: kürümək
    • Ottoman Turkish: كوره‌مك (küremek)
      • Turkish: küremek, kürümek
      • Gagauz: kürümää
  • ⇒ Turkmen: kürek
  • ⇒ Salar: kürek
• Karluk:
  • Karakhanid: كُريٖماكْ (kürimek), كُرْكاكْ (kürgek)
    • Chagatai: کوریماک, کوراماک
      • Uzbek: kuramoq
      • Uyghur: كۈرەمەك (küremek, “to shovel”), كۈرەك (kürek, “shovel”)
• Kipchak:
  • North Kipchak:
    • Bashkir: көрәү (körəw)
    • Tatar: [script needed] (köre-)
  • West Kipchak:
    • ⇒ Crimean Tatar: kürek
    • Kumyk: кюремек (küremek)
    • Karachay-Balkar: [script needed] (küre-)
  • South Kipchak:
    • Caspian:
      • Karakalpak: гүреў
      • Kazakh: күреу (küreu)
      • Nogai: куьрев (kürev)
    • Kyrgyz-Kipchak:
      • Kyrgyz: күрөө (küröö)
      • Southern Altai: кӱреер (küreer)
• Siberian:
  • North Siberian:
    • Dolgan: [script needed] (kürt-)
    • Yakut: күрт (kürt)
  • South Siberian:
    • Sayan:
      • ⇒ Tuvan: [script needed] (xürüyek)
      • ⇒ Tofa: [script needed] (xürüj̃ek)
    • Yenisei:
      • Khakas: [script needed] (küre-)

References

• Starostin, Sergei, Dybo, Anna, Mudrak, Oleg (2003) “*küre-”, in Etymological dictionary of the Altaic languages (Handbuch der Orientalistik; VIII.8), Leiden, New York, Köln: E.J. Brill