Reconstruction:Proto-Turkic/kẹntü

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

• *gẹntü

Pronoun

*kẹntü

1. self

Adjective

*kẹntü

1. self, own

Descendants

• Khorezmian Turkic: [script needed] (kendü)
• Mamluk-Kipchak: [script needed] (kendü)
• Proto-Oghuz: *gendü
  • West Oghuz:
    • Old Anatolian Turkish: كندو (gändü)
      • Azerbaijani: gəndi (dialectal)
      • Ottoman Turkish: كندو (kendü)
        • Turkish: kendi
        • Gagauz: kendi
• Karluk:
  • Karakhanid: كَنْدُو (kendǖ)
• Siberian Turkic:
  • Old Turkic: 𐰚𐰦𐰇 (kentü)
  • Old Uyghur: k՚ntw (kentü)
  • North Siberian:
    • Dolgan: гини (gini)
    • Yakut: кини (kini)

Derived terms

• *kẹntü-m (“myself”)
  • Kipchak: [script needed] (kendim)

References

• Clauson, Gerard (1972) “kentü:”, in An Etymological Dictionary of pre-thirteenth-century Turkish, Oxford: Clarendon Press, page 728
• Starostin, Sergei, Dybo, Anna, Mudrak, Oleg (2003) “*gẹntü (-nd-)”, in Etymological dictionary of the Altaic languages (Handbuch der Orientalistik; VIII.8), Leiden, New York, Köln: E.J. Brill