Reconstruction:Proto-Turkic/kula-

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

It is regional. It has not been attested in Old Turkic, Old Uyghur, and Kashgarî's dictionary, however, it has in Salar and Western Yugur. (This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Verb

*kula-

1. (Karluk, Kipchak) to roll down

Descendants

• Common Turkic:

• Karluk:
  • Chagatai:
    • Uzbek: qulamoq
    • Uyghur: [script needed] (qulamaq)
• Kipchak:
  • North Kipchak:
    • Bashkir: ҡолау (qolaw)
  • South Kipchak:
    • Caspian:
      • Karakalpak: [script needed] (qula-)
      • Kazakh: құлау (qūlau)
    • Kyrgyz-Kipchak:
      • Kyrgyz: кулоо (kuloo)
      • Southern Altai: [script needed] (qula-)
• Siberian:
  • Old Uyghur:
    • Western Yugur: [script needed] (qula-)
    • →? Salar: gülingüsi

References

• Starostin, Sergei, Dybo, Anna, Mudrak, Oleg (2003) “*kul-”, in Etymological dictionary of the Altaic languages (Handbuch der Orientalistik; VIII.8), Leiden, New York, Köln: E.J. Brill