Reconstruction:Proto-Turkic/koŋur

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

Akin to Proto-Tungusic *konŋa- (“black”), compare Evenki конңорин (“black”). (Can this⁽⁺⁾ etymology be sourced?)

Adjective

*koŋur

1. brown
2. dull, cloudy, overcast
3. hoarse, husky

Derived terms

• (Common Turkic) *koŋral (“auburn”)

Descendants

• Oghur:
  • Chuvash: хӑмӑр (hămăr)
  • → Hungarian: komor
• Common Turkic: *koŋur

• Proto-Oghuz: *goŋur
  • West Oghuz:
    • Old Anatolian Turkish:
      • Azerbaijani: qonur
      • Ottoman Turkish:
        • Turkish: konur, goğur (dialectal)
        • Gagauz: komur
  • East Oghuz:
    • Turkmen: goňur
• Karluk:
  • Karakhanid: قُنکُرْ (qonğur)
    • Chagatai: قونغر (qonğur), قونقار (qonqar)
      • Uyghur: قۇڭۇر (qu'ngur)
      • Uzbek: qoʻngʻir
• Kipchak:
  • North Kipchak:
    • Bashkir: ҡуңыр (quñır)
    • Tatar: коңгырт (qoñgırt)
  • West Kipchak:
    • Crimean Tatar: qoñur
    • Kumyk: къонгур (qoñur)
    • Karachay-Balkar: къонгур (qoñur )
  • East Kipchak:
    • Kyrgyz: коңур (koŋur)
    • Southern Altai: коҥыр (koŋïr)
  • South Kipchak:
    • Karakalpak: қоңыр
    • Kazakh: қоңыр (qoñyr)
    • Nogai: конъыр (koñır)
• Siberian:
  • Old Turkic:
    • Old Uyghur:
      • Western Yugur: qoŋïr
  • North Siberian:
    • Yakut: хоҥор (qoñor)
  • South Siberian:
    • Sayan:
      • Tofa: һоор
      • Tuvan: хоор (xoor)
    • Yenisei:
      • Khakas: хоор (xoor)

See also

Colors in Proto-Turkic · *boduglar, *bodugsāyïn (layout · text)

*āk, *ürüŋ	*boŕ, *sūr, *kuba, *čāl, *oń	*kara
*kïŕïl; *āl	*koŋur, *yạgïŕ	*siarïg, *yẹgren
	*yāĺïl
	*kȫk
	*(y)ip-

References

• Clauson, Gerard (1972) “”, in An Etymological Dictionary of pre-thirteenth-century Turkish, Oxford: Clarendon Press, page 639
• 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)‎^[1] (in German), volume III, Wiesbaden: Franz Steiner Verlag, page 525
• Levitskaja, L. S., Dybo, A. V., Rassadin, V. I. (2000) Etimologičeskij slovarʹ tjurkskix jazykov [Etymological Dictionary of Turkic Languages] (in Russian), volume VI, Moscow: Indrik, pages 62-65
• Róna-Tas, András, Berta, Árpád, Károly, László (2011) West Old Turkic: Turkic Loanwords in Hungarian (Turcologica; 84), Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, page 560
• Räsänen, Martti (1969) Versuch eines etymologischen Wörterbuchs der Türksprachen (in German), Helsinki: Suomalais-ugrilainen seura, pages 280-281
• Starostin, Sergei, Dybo, Anna, Mudrak, Oleg (2003) “*koŋur”, in Etymological dictionary of the Altaic languages (Handbuch der Orientalistik; VIII.8)‎^[2], Leiden, New York, Köln: E.J. Brill