Reconstruction:Proto-Turkic/sūn-

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

Compare Proto-Mongolic *sunu- (“to stretch out”), Proto-Tungusic *sūn- (“to stretch out”). (Can this⁽⁺⁾ etymology be sourced?)

Verb

*sūn-

(transitive) to stretch, stretch out

Descendants

Common Turkic:

Oghuz:
- Old Anatolian Turkish:
  - Azerbaijani: sunmaq
  - Ottoman Turkish: صونمق
    - Turkish: sunmak
Karluk:
- Karakhanid: [script needed] (sunmaq)
  - Chagatai:
    - Uzbek: [script needed] (sun-)
    - Uyghur: سۇنـ (sun-)
Kipchak:
- West Kipchak:
  - Crimean Tatar: sunmaq
  - Karaim: [script needed] (sun-)
- North Kipchak:
  - Bashkir: һоноу (honow)
  - Tatar: [script needed] (son-)
- South Kipchak:
  - Caspian:
    - Kazakh: ұсыну (ūsynu)
    - Karakalpak: усыныў (usïnïw, “to offer”)
  - Kyrgyz-Kipchak:
    - Kyrgyz: [script needed] (sun-)
    - Southern Altai: [script needed] (sunar)
Siberian:
- Old Turkic: [script needed] (sun-)
  - Old Uyghur: [script needed] (sun-)
    - Western Yugur: [script needed] (sun-)
- North Siberian:
  - Yakut: уун (uun)
- South Siberian:
  - Sayan Turkic:
    - Tuvan: [script needed] (sun-)
  - Yenisei Turkic:
    - Khakas: [script needed] (sun-)

References

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