Reconstruction:Proto-Turkic/kalkan

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

Clauson suggests that this is a basic noun, however in terms of its origin there have been multiple theories:

1. Rasanen and Nishanyan sugget that this is a borrowing from Proto-Mongolic *kalkan (“shield”) however ESMJa and Clauson suggest the reverse.
2. Nishanyan attempts to explain a native origin as a derivation *kalk- (“to rise”) +‎ *-gan.

Noun

*kalkan

1. (Common Turkic, weaponry) shield

Declension

Declension of *kalkan

	singular 3)
nominative	*kalkan
accusative	*kalkanïg, *kalkannï1)
genitive	*kalkannïŋ
dative	*kalkanka
locative	*kalkanta
ablative	*kalkantan
allative	*kalkangaru
instrumental 2)	*kalkanïn
equative 2)	*kalkanča
similative 2)	*kalkanlayu
comitative 2)	*kalkanlïgu

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

• Common Turkic: *kalkan

• Oghuz:
  • West Oghuz:
    • Old Anatolian Turkish: [script needed] (kalkan)
      • Azerbaijani: qalxan
      • Ottoman Turkish: قلقان (kalkan)
        • Turkish: kalkan
  • East Oghuz:
    • Turkmen: galkan
• Karluk:
  • Karakhanid: [script needed] (qalqan)
    • Chagatai: [script needed] (qalqan)
      • Uyghur: قالقان (qalqan)
      • Uzbek: qalqon
      • → Persian: قلقان (qalqân)
• Kipchak:
  • North Kipchak:
    • Bashkir: ҡалҡан (qalqan)
    • Tatar: калкан (qalkan)
  • West Kipchak:
    • Crimean Tatar: qalqan
    • Karaim: калкан (qalqan)
  • South Kipchak:
    • Karakalpak: qalqan
    • Kazakh: қалқан (qalqan)
    • Nogai: калкан (kalkan)
  • East Kipchak:
    • Kyrgyz: калкан (kalkan)
• Siberian:
  • Old Turkic:
    • Old Uyghur: qʾlqʾn (qalqan)
• →? Proto-Mongolic: *kalkan

References

• al-Kashgarî, Mahmud (1072–1074) Besim Atalay, transl., Divanü Lûgat-it-Türk Tercümesi [Translation of the “Compendium of the languages of the Turks”] (Türk Dil Kurumu Yayınları; 521) (in Turkish), 1985 edition, Ankara: Türk Tarih Kurmu Basımevi, published 1939–1943
• Clauson, Gerard (1972) “kalkan”, in An Etymological Dictionary of pre-thirteenth-century Turkish, Oxford: Clarendon Press, page 621
• Doerfer, Gerhard (1967) Türkische und mongolische Elemente im Neupersischen [Turkic and Mongolian Elements in New Persian] (Akademie der Wissenschaften und der Literatur: Veröffentlichungen der Orientalischen Kommission; 20)‎^[1] (in German), volume III, Wiesbaden: Franz Steiner Verlag, page 501
• Levitskaja, L. S., Dybo, A. V., Rassadin, V. I. (1997) Etimologičeskij slovarʹ tjurkskix jazykov [Etymological Dictionary of Turkic Languages] (in Russian), volume V, Moscow: Jazyki russkoj kulʹtury, page 233
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “kalkan”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Räsänen, Martti (1969) Versuch eines etymologischen Wörterbuchs der Türksprachen (in German), Helsinki: Suomalais-ugrilainen seura, page 227
• Sanžejev, G. D., Orlovskaja, M. N., Ševernina, Z. V. (2015–) Etimologičeskij slovarʹ mongolʹskix jazykov: v 3 t. [Etymological dictionary of Mongolic languages: in 3 vols.] (in Russian), volume III, Moscow: Institute of Oriental Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences, page 27