Reconstruction:Proto-Turkic/sāb

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

Noun

*sāb

word, speech

Declension

Declension of *sāb
	singular ³⁾
nominative	*sāb
accusative	sābïg, sābnï¹⁾
genitive	*sābnïŋ
dative	*sābka
locative	*sābda
ablative	*sābdan
allative	*sābgaru
instrumental ²⁾	*sābïn
equative ²⁾	*sābča
similative ²⁾	*sāblayu
comitative ²⁾	*sāblïgu

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.

Descendants

Oghur:
- ⇒ Chuvash: сӑвӑ (săvă)
- → Proto-Ugric: *sawɜ
  - Hungarian: szó
  - Mansi:
    - Northern Mansi: сов (sov)
  - Khanty:
    - Northern Khanty: сӑв (săw) (Obdorsk)
Common Turkic: *sāb
- ⇒ Common Turkic: *sābčï

Karluk:
- Karakhanid: ساڤْ (sāv), ساڤْجىٖ (sāvčï, “prophet”)^[1]
Oghuz: ساڤْجىٖ (sāvčï, “ambassador, envoy”)^[2]
- Old Anatolian Turkish: ساو
  - ⇒ Azerbaijani: söz-sov (“gossip; discontent”)
  - Ottoman Turkish: ساو (sav)
    - Turkish: sav (“gossip, conversation, news”) (dial.)
    - → Turkish: sav (“contention; theorem; proposition; thesis; argument, allegation, claim; assertion”), savcı
- ⇒ Salar: sōcı
- Turkmen: sāw, sāwçy
Siberian:
- Southern Siberian:
  - Old Turkic: [script needed] (sab)
    - Old Uyghur: s?՚vy (savï)

References

^ al-Kashgarî, Mahmud (1072–1074) Besim Atalay, transl., Divanü Lûgat-it-Türk Tercümesi [Translation of the “Compendium of the languages of the Turks”] (Türk Dil Kurumu Yayınları; 521) (in Turkish), 1985 edition, Ankara: Türk Tarih Kurmu Basımevi, published 1939–1943, page 441
^ al-Kashgarî, Mahmud (1072–1074) Besim Atalay, transl., Divanü Lûgat-it-Türk Tercümesi [Translation of the “Compendium of the languages of the Turks”] (Türk Dil Kurumu Yayınları; 521) (in Turkish), 1985 edition, Ankara: Türk Tarih Kurmu Basımevi, published 1939–1943, page 441

Räsänen, Martti (1969) Versuch eines etymologischen Wörterbuchs der Türksprachen (in German), Helsinki: Suomalais-ugrilainen seura, page 391a
Levitskaja, L. S., Blagova, G. F., Dybo, A. V., Nasilov, D. M., Pocelujevskij, Je. A. (2003) “са:в”, in Etimologičeskij slovarʹ tjurkskix jazykov [Etymological Dictionary of Turkic Languages] (in Russian), volume VII, Moscow: Vostočnaja literatura, pages 136-137
Starostin, Sergei, Dybo, Anna, Mudrak, Oleg (2003) “*sāb”, in Etymological dictionary of the Altaic languages (Handbuch der Orientalistik; VIII.8)‎^[1], Leiden, New York, Köln: E.J. Brill

[1] -Kashgarî, Mahmud (1072–1074) Besim Atalay, transl., Divanü Lûgat-it-Türk Tercümesi [Translation of the “Compendium of the languages of the Turks”] (Türk Dil Kurumu Yayınları; 521) (in Turkish), 1985 edition, Ankara: Türk Tarih Kurmu Basımevi, published 1939–1943, page 441

[2] -Kashgarî, Mahmud (1072–1074) Besim Atalay, transl., Divanü Lûgat-it-Türk Tercümesi [Translation of the “Compendium of the languages of the Turks”] (Türk Dil Kurumu Yayınları; 521) (in Turkish), 1985 edition, Ankara: Türk Tarih Kurmu Basımevi, published 1939–1943, page 441

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