Reconstruction:Proto-Turkic/sü
Proto-Turkic
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Despite usually being considered native, there have also been suggestions for a borrowing from Middle Chinese 戍 (MC syuH, “frontier guards”).[1]
Noun
[edit]*sü
Declension
[edit]| singular 3) | |
|---|---|
| nominative | *sü |
| accusative | *süg, *süni1) |
| genitive | *sünüŋ |
| dative | *süke |
| locative | *süde |
| ablative | *süden |
| allative | *sügerü |
| instrumental 2) | *sün |
| equative 2) | *süče |
| similative 2) | *süleyü |
| comitative 2) | *sülügü |
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
[edit]- *sü-le- (“to have an expedition”)
Descendants
[edit]- Common Turkic:
- Oghuz:
- Old Anatolian Turkish:
- Ottoman Turkish: [script needed] (su, sü)
- Turkish: su uyur, düşman uyumaz (“the army sleeps, but the enemy doesn't”)
- Ottoman Turkish: [script needed] (su, sü)
- Old Anatolian Turkish:
- Karluk:
- Karakhanid: [script needed] (sü)
- Siberian:
- Old Turkic: [script needed] (sü)
- Old Uyghur: [script needed] (sü)
- Old Turkic: [script needed] (sü)
References
[edit]- ^ Dybo, A. V. (2007) Lingvističeskije kontakty rannix tjurkov: leksičeskij fond, pratjurkskij period [Language contacts of early Turks. The Proto-Turkic period][1] (in Russian), Moscow: Oriental Literature, Russian Academy of Sciences, page 8
- Clauson, Gerard (1972) “”, in An Etymological Dictionary of pre-thirteenth-century Turkish, Oxford: Clarendon Press, page 781
- Räsänen, Martti (1969) Versuch eines etymologischen Wörterbuchs der Türksprachen (in German), Helsinki: Suomalais-ugrilainen seura, page 434