Reconstruction:Proto-Turkic/kerekü

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

Somehow similar to Proto-Mongolic *ger (“yurt, house”), whence also Mongolian гэр (ger, “yurt”). (Can this⁽⁺⁾ etymology be sourced?)

Noun

*kerekü

1. tent, yurt
2. grating of the yurt

Declension

Declension of *kerekü

	Singular 3)
Nominative	*kerekü
Accusative	*kereküg, *kereküni1)
Genitive	*kerekünüŋ
Dative	*kereküke
Locative	*kereküde
Ablative	*kereküden
Allative	*kerekügerü
Instrumental 2)	*kerekün
Equative 2)	*kereküče
Similative 2)	*kereküleyü
Comitative 2)	*kerekülügü

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:
• Common Turkic: *kerekü

• Oghuz:
  • East Oghuz:
    • Turkmen: gerege
• Karluk:
  • Karakhanid: [script needed] (kerekü)
    • Uzbek: keraga
• Kipchak:
  • North Kipchak:
    • Bashkir: кирәгә (kirəgə)
  • South Kipchak:
    • Karakalpak: кереге (kerege)
    • Kazakh: кереге (kerege)
    • Nogai: кереге (kerege)
  • East Kipchak:
    • Kyrgyz: кереге (kerege)
    • Southern Altai: кереге (kerege)

References

• Clauson, Gerard (1972) “”, in An Etymological Dictionary of pre-thirteenth-century Turkish, Oxford: Clarendon Press, page 744
• Räsänen, Martti (1969) Versuch eines etymologischen Wörterbuchs der Türksprachen (in German), Helsinki: Suomalais-ugrilainen seura, page 255
• Sevortjan, E. V. (1980) Etimologičeskij slovarʹ tjurkskix jazykov [Etymological Dictionary of Turkic Languages] (in Russian), volume 3, Moscow: Nauka, pages 24-25
• Starostin, Sergei, Dybo, Anna, Mudrak, Oleg (2003) “*gErekü”, in Etymological dictionary of the Altaic languages (Handbuch der Orientalistik; VIII.8)‎^[1], Leiden, New York, Köln: E.J. Brill
• Tenišev E. R., editor (1984–2006), Sravnitelʹno-istoričeskaja grammatika tjurkskix jazykov: [Comparative Historical Grammar of Turkic Languages:] (in Russian), Moscow: Nauka, page 503
• 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)‎^[2] (in German), volume 3, Wiesbaden: Franz Steiner Verlag, page 592