Reconstruction:Proto-Turkic/kodurčuk

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

• *kagurčak

Etymology

1. According to Tekin, from *koduŕ (“woman”) +‎ *-čuk (“diminutive suffix”). However, the word seems to have more specifically referred to widows, as opposed to women in general, which makes it semantically dubious.
2. Authors of EDAL under the discredited Altaic theory, citing Räsänen's construction of this form with a velar rather than an alveolar-dental sound in the second syllable, reconstruct this word as *kagurčak, assuming the Chagatai and Uzbek forms with *-g- to be the original sound and connect the word with Proto-Tungusic *xakukan (“doll”) and Japanese 傀儡 (kugutsu, “doll”). However a sound change *-g- → -d- is otherwise not found in Karakhanid, which is explained by the same authors as a phonetic aberration.

Relation with *kāparčak (“blister, pustule”), which came to also be used for "doll" in Karakhanid is uncertain, perhaps a conflation of the two terms or coincidence.

Noun

*kodurčuk

1. (Common Turkic) doll

Declension

Declension of *kodurčuk

	Singular 3)
Nominative	*kodurčuk
Accusative	*kodurčukug, *kodurčuknï1)
Genitive	*kodurčuknuŋ
Dative	*kodurčukka
Locative	*kodurčukda
Ablative	*kodurčukdan
Allative	*kodurčukgaru
Instrumental 2)	*kodurčukun
Equative 2)	*kodurčukča
Similative 2)	*kodurčuklayu
Comitative 2)	*kodurčuklugu

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

• Common Turkic:

• Proto-Oghuz:
  • West Oghuz:
    • Ottoman Turkish:
      • Turkish: kavırçak, korçak, koğurçak (all are dial.)
  • East Oghuz:
    • Turkmen: gurjak
• Karluk:
  • Karakhanid: قُذُرْجُقْ (quδurčuq)
    • Chagatai: [script needed] (qoğurcaq), [script needed] (qavur), [script needed] (qavurčağ), [script needed] (qavucaq)
      • Uyghur: قورچاق (qorchaq)
      • Uzbek: qoʻgʻirchoq
• Kipchak:
  • North Kipchak:
    • Bashkir: ҡурсаҡ (qursaq)
    • Tatar: курчак (qurçaq)
  • West Kipchak:
    • Kumyk: къурчакъ (qurçaq)
  • South Kipchak:
    • Karakalpak: [script needed] (quvırşaq)
    • Kazakh: қуыршақ (quyrşaq)
    • Nogai: кувыршак (kuvırşak)
  • East Kipchak:
    • Kyrgyz: куурчак (kuurcak)
    • Southern Altai: корчок (korčok)

References

• Clauson, Gerard (1972) “kabarça:k, koḏurçuk”, in An Etymological Dictionary of pre-thirteenth-century Turkish, Oxford: Clarendon Press, pages 587-606
• Räsänen, Martti (1969) Versuch eines etymologischen Wörterbuchs der Türksprachen (in German), Helsinki: Suomalais-ugrilainen seura, page 220
• Levitskaja, L. S., Dybo, A. V., Rassadin, V. I. (2000) Etimologičeskij slovarʹ tjurkskix jazykov [Etymological Dictionary of Turkic Languages] (in Russian), volume 6, Moscow: Indrik, pages 161-163
• Starostin, Sergei, Dybo, Anna, Mudrak, Oleg (2003) “*kagur”, in Etymological dictionary of the Altaic languages (Handbuch der Orientalistik; VIII.8)‎^[1], Leiden, New York, Köln: E.J. Brill
• Tekin, Talât (1969) “Zetacism and Sigmatism in Proto-Turkic”, in Acta Orientalia Acedamiae Scientiarum Hunagricae, Berkeley, pages 51-80 (page 62)