Reconstruction:Proto-Turkic/semiŕ

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

Akin to Proto-Mongolic *sem-ci (“inner fat, fat on liver”), Proto-Tungusic *semesik (“inner fat”). (Can this⁽⁺⁾ etymology be sourced?) Looking at the compared word in Mongolic, can be from *sem- +‎ *-iŕ.

Adjective

*semiŕ

1. fat

Descendants

• Oghur:
  • Chuvash: самӑр (samăr, “fat”)
• Common Turkic:

• Oghuz:
  • Old Anatolian Turkish:
    • Azerbaijani: səmiz, səmizmək (“to fatten”)
    • Ottoman Turkish: سمیز (semiz)
      • Turkish: semiz
  • Salar: semiz, simus
  • Turkmen: semiz
• Karluk:
  • Karakhanid: سَمِزْ (semiz)
    • Khorezmian Turkic:
      • Chagatai:
        • Uzbek: semiz
        • Uyghur: سېمىز (sëmiz)
• Kipchak:
  • West Kipchak:
    • Crimean Tatar: semiz
    • Kumyk: семиз (semiz)
    • Karachay-Balkar: семиз (semiz)
    • Karaim: [script needed] (semiz)
  • North Kipchak:
    • Bashkir: һимеҙ (himeź)
    • Tatar: симез (simez)
  • South Kipchak:
    • Caspian:
      • Kazakh: семіз (semız)
      • Karakalpak: semiz
      • Nogai: семиз (semiz)
    • Kyrgyz-Kipchak:
      • Kyrgyz: семиз (semiz)
      • Southern Altai: семис (semis)
• Siberian:
  • Old Turkic: [script needed] (semiz)
  • Old Uyghur: [script needed] (semiz)
  • North Siberian:
    • Dolgan: эмис
    • Yakut: эмис (emis)
  • South Siberian:
    • Sayan Turkic:
      • Tuvan: семис (semis)
      • Tofa: семис
    • Yenisei Turkic:
      • Chulym: семис
      • Shor: себис
      • Khakas: симiс (simis)
      • Western Yugur: [script needed] (semiz)
    • Northern Altai: севис (sevis), севиз (seviz), себис (sebis), себиз (sebiz)

Further reading

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