Reconstruction:Proto-Turkic/sȫn-

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

Related to Proto-Mongolic *sönü- (“to fade”).

Verb

*sȫn-

1. (Oghur, Oghuz, Kipchak, Karluk) to fade

Descendants

• → Proto-Mongolic: *sönü-
  • Mongolian: сөнөх (sönöx)
• Oghur:
  • Chuvash: сӳн (sün)
  • → Hungarian: szűnik
• Common Turkic:

• Oghuz:
  • Ajem Turkic:
    • Azerbaijani: sönmək
    • Qashqai: سؤنمك (sönmək)
  • Old Anatolian Turkish: سوينمك (söyünmek)
    • Gagauz: süünmää
    • Ottoman Turkish: سوگنمك (söğünmek), سونمك (sönmek)
      • Turkish: sönmek, (dialect) söğünmek, (dialect) söyünmek
  • Salar: sengüsi
  • Turkmen: sönmek, sȫnmek
• Karluk:
  • Chagatai:
    • Uzbek: soʻnmoq
• Kipchak:
  • North Kipchak:
    • Bashkir: һүнеү (hünew)
    • Tatar: [script needed] (sün-)
  • West Kipchak:
    • Crimean Tatar: [script needed] (sön-)
    • Karachay-Balkar:
    • Karaim: [script needed] (sön-)
    • Kumyk: [script needed] (sön-)
  • South Kipchak:
    • Caspian:
      • Karakalpak: [script needed] (sön-)
      • Kazakh: сөну (sönu)
      • Nogai: [script needed] (sön-)
  • East Kipchak:
    • Southern Altai: сеенер (seener), сенер (sener)
• Siberian:
  • Old Uyghur: [script needed] (sön-)

References

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