Reconstruction:Proto-Turkic/sekü

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

*sekü

1. stone bench
2. dais, platform

Declension

Declension of *sekü

	Singular 3)
Nominative	*sekü
Accusative	*seküg, *seküni1)
Genitive	*sekünüŋ
Dative	*seküke
Locative	*seküde
Ablative	*seküden
Allative	*sekügerü
Instrumental 2)	*sekün
Equative 2)	*seküče
Similative 2)	*seküleyü
Comitative 2)	*sekülügü

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

Descendants

• Oghur:
  • Chuvash: сак (sak), сакӑ (sak̬ă), саккӑ (sakkă)
  • → Hungarian: szék
• Common Turkic: *sekü

• Oghuz:
  • Old Anatolian Turkish:
    • Azerbaijani: səki
    • Ottoman Turkish: سكی
      • Turkish: seki
  • Turkmen: seki
  • → Armenian: սաքու (sakʻu)
  • → Persian: سکو (saku)
  • Kurdish:

    → Northern Kurdish: sekû, seko

    → Central Kurdish: سەکۆ (seko)

• Karluk:
  • Karakhanid: سَکُو (sekü)
• Kipchak:
  • North Kipchak:
    • Bashkir: һике (hike)
    • Tatar: сәке (säke)
  • East Kipchak:
    • Kyrgyz: секи (seki)
• Siberian:
  • >? Yakut: эҕэ (eğe, “washout”)

References

• Clauson, Gerard (1972) “”, in An Etymological Dictionary of pre-thirteenth-century Turkish, Oxford: Clarendon Press, page 819
• Doerfer, Gerhard (1967) Türkische und mongolische Elemente im Neupersischen [Turkic and Mongolian Elements in New Persian] (Akademie der Wissenschaften und der Literatur: Veröffentlichungen der Orientalischen Kommission; 20)‎^[1] (in German), volume III, Wiesbaden: Franz Steiner Verlag, page 262
• Räsänen, Martti (1969) Versuch eines etymologischen Wörterbuchs der Türksprachen (in German), Helsinki: Suomalais-ugrilainen seura, page 408
• Róna-Tas, András, Berta, Árpád, Károly, László (2011) West Old Turkic: Turkic Loanwords in Hungarian (Turcologica; 84), Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, page 783
• Starostin, Sergei, Dybo, Anna, Mudrak, Oleg (2003) “*sekü”, in Etymological dictionary of the Altaic languages (Handbuch der Orientalistik; VIII.8)‎^[2], Leiden, New York, Köln: E.J. Brill
• Tenišev E. R., editor (1984–2006), Sravnitelʹno-istoričeskaja grammatika tjurkskix jazykov: [Comparative Historical Grammar of Turkic Languages:] (in Russian), Moscow: Nauka, page 519