Reconstruction:Proto-Turkic/mak

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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

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Reconstruction notes

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This reconstruction relies on rather thin evidence: the Old Turkic word occurs only once in the entire known corpus, and its correct reading remains problematic, as does the cognate in Karakhanid. An alternative view holds that the descendants in the contemporary Siberian languages are back-formations from *makta-, which, in turn, is a Mongolic loan according to this view. For the latter speaks the fact that /*m-/ is a rare, possibly even a completely absent onset in Proto-Turkic.[1][2][3]

Radloff posited a derivation of *makta- from *mak-la-, through manner-assimilation of /-l/ by /-k/.[4] Sanžejev held that most derivations are indeed from Mongolic *maɣta, but that it is itself from Turkic *mak as attested in Old Turkic[5] The descendants section below treats the Mongolic forms as Turkic borrowings, but bear in mind that there could be three alternatives:

  • Turkic *mak → Turkic *makta → Mongolic *maɣta (as per Radloff, reflected in the descendants section)
  • Turkic *mak → Mongolic *maɣta → Turkic *makta (as per Sanžejev)
  • Mongolic *maɣta → Turkic *makta → Turkic *mak (back-formation hypothesis)

Noun

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*mak

  1. praise

Declension

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Derived terms

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Descendants

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  • Karluk:
    • >? Karakhanid: [script needed] (mağu) (Kutadgu Bilig, per Radloff[6])
    • Chagatai: ماق (maq)
  • Kipchak:
  • Siberian:

References

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  1. ^ Levitskaja, L. S., Blagova, G. F., Dybo, A. V., Nasilov, D. M., Pocelujevskij, Je. A. (2003) Etimologičeskij slovarʹ tjurkskix jazykov [Etymological Dictionary of Turkic Languages] (in Russian), volume VII, Moscow: Vostočnaja literatura, pages 12-14
  2. ^ Róna-Tas, András, Berta, Árpád, Károly, László (2011) West Old Turkic: Turkic Loanwords in Hungarian (Turcologica; 84), Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, page 1087
  3. ^ Räsänen, Martti (1969) Versuch eines etymologischen Wörterbuchs der Türksprachen (in German), Helsinki: Suomalais-ugrilainen seura, page 321
  4. ^ Radloff, Friedrich Wilhelm (1911) Опыт словаря тюркских наречий – Versuch eines Wörterbuches der Türk-Dialecte [Attempt at a Lexicon of the Turkic Dialects], volume IV (overall work in German and Russian), Saint Petersburg: Imperial Academy of Sciences, column 1997
  5. ^ Sanžejev, G. D., Orlovskaja, M. N., Ševernina, Z. V. (2016) Etimologičeskij slovarʹ mongolʹskix jazykov: v 3 t. [Etymological dictionary of Mongolic languages: in 3 vols.] (in Russian), volume II, Moscow: Institute of Oriental Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences, page 156
  6. ^ Radloff, Friedrich Wilhelm (1911) Опыт словаря тюркских наречий – Versuch eines Wörterbuches der Türk-Dialecte [Attempt at a Lexicon of the Turkic Dialects], volume IV (overall work in German and Russian), Saint Petersburg: Imperial Academy of Sciences, column 2002
  7. ^ Nadeljajev, V. M.; Nasilov, D. M.; Tenišev, E. R.; Ščerbak, A. M., editors (1969), Drevnetjurkskij slovarʹ [Dictionary of Old Turkic] (in Russian), Leningrad: USSR Academy of Sciences, Nauka, page 335
  8. ^ Cincius, V. I. (1975) Сравнительный словарь тунгусо-маньчжурских языков [Comparative Dictionary of Tungus-Manchu Languages] (in Russian), volume I, Leningrad: Nauka, page 523