Reconstruction:Proto-Turkic/kebrüč

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

Can be analyzable as *keb- +‎ *-rüč, if related to Proto-Tungusic *xiba-gda (“ash tree”), whence also Nanai сивагдан (sivagdan). (Can this⁽⁺⁾ etymology be sourced?)

Noun

*kebrüč

1. ash tree

Declension

Declension of *kebrüč

	Singular 3)
Nominative	*kebrüč
Accusative	*kebrüčüg, *kebrüčni1)
Genitive	*kebrüčnüŋ
Dative	*kebrüčke
Locative	*kebrüčde
Ablative	*kebrüčden
Allative	*kebrüčgerü
Instrumental 2)	*kebrüčün
Equative 2)	*kebrüčče
Similative 2)	*kebrüčleyü
Comitative 2)	*kebrüčlügü

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: каврӑҫ (kavrăś)
  • → Hungarian: kőris
• Common Turkic:

• Oghuz:
  • West Oghuz:
    • Old Anatolian Turkish:
      • Azerbaijani: göyrüş
      • Ottoman Turkish:
        • Turkish: kürüç, küvrüç (dialectal)
• Karluk:
  • Karakhanid: [script needed] (kevrik, “hornbeam”)
• Kipchak:
  • West Kipchak:
    • Karachay-Balkar: кюрюч (kürüç)
    • Kumyk: гюйрюч (güyrüç)
  • South Kipchak:
    • Nogai: [script needed] (güyriş)

References

• Starostin, Sergei, Dybo, Anna, Mudrak, Oleg (2003) “*kebrüč”, in Etymological dictionary of the Altaic languages (Handbuch der Orientalistik; VIII.8)‎^[1], Leiden, New York, Köln: E.J. Brill
• Clauson, Gerard (1972) “”, in An Etymological Dictionary of pre-thirteenth-century Turkish, Oxford: Clarendon Press, page 690
• Räsänen, Martti (1969) Versuch eines etymologischen Wörterbuchs der Türksprachen (in German), Helsinki: Suomalais-ugrilainen seura, page 245
• Levitskaja, L. S., Dybo, A. V., Rassadin, V. I. (1997) Etimologičeskij slovarʹ tjurkskix jazykov [Etymological Dictionary of Turkic Languages] (in Russian), volume 5, Moscow: Jazyki russkoj kulʹtury, page 152
• Tenišev E. R., editor (1984–2006), Sravnitelʹno-istoričeskaja grammatika tjurkskix jazykov: [Comparative Historical Grammar of Turkic Languages:] (in Russian), Moscow: Nauka, page 136