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Reconstruction:Proto-Turkic/ōyun

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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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Etymology

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Different sources give different etymologies:

  1. Clauson suggets that it is from *ōy- (to hollow) +‎ *-un saying most Turkic games involved holes.
  2. ESTJa and Räsänen suggest that it is from *oy- (to jump) +‎ *-un.
  3. Nishanyan suggests a possible common root with *ōŕ- (to win; to be saved).

Noun

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*ōyun

  1. game

Declension

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Declension of *ōyun
singular 3)
nominative *ōyun
accusative *ōyunug, *ōyunnï1)
genitive *ōyunnuŋ
dative *ōyunka
locative *ōyunta
ablative *ōyuntan
allative *ōyungaru
instrumental 2) *ōyunun
equative 2) *ōyunča
similative 2) *ōyunlayu
comitative 2) *ōyunlugu

1) Originally used only in pronominal declension.
2) The original instrumental, equative, similative, and comitative cases have fallen into disuse in many modern Turkic languages.
3) Plurality in Proto-Turkic is disputed. See also the notes on the Proto-Turkic/Locative-ablative case and plurality page on Wikibooks.

Derived terms

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  • Proto-Turkic: *ōyun-a- (to play)
    • Proto-Turkic: *ōyna-ĺ (lovers)
    • Proto-Turkic: *ōyna-k (plaything, moving thing)

Descendants

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References

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  • Clauson, Gerard (1972) “oyun”, in An Etymological Dictionary of pre-thirteenth-century Turkish, Oxford: Clarendon Press, page 274
  • Tekin, Talât (1995) “ōyun”, in Türk Dillerinde Birincil Uzun Ünlüler [Primary Long Vowels in Turkic Languages] (Türk Dilleri Araştırmaları Dizisi; 13)‎[1], Ankara: T.C. Kültür Bakanlığı, →ISBN, page 177
  • Sevortjan, E. V. (1974) Etimologičeskij slovarʹ tjurkskix jazykov [Etymological Dictionary of Turkic Languages] (in Russian), volume I, Moscow: Nauka, page 435
  • Räsänen, Martti (1969) Versuch eines etymologischen Wörterbuchs der Türksprachen (in German), Helsinki: Suomalais-ugrilainen seura, page 359
  • Starostin, Sergei, Dybo, Anna, Mudrak, Oleg (2003) “*oj-”, in Etymological dictionary of the Altaic languages (Handbuch der Orientalistik; VIII.8)‎[2], Leiden, New York, Köln: E.J. Brill