Reconstruction:Proto-Turkic/tāl-

See also: Reconstruction:Proto-Turkic/tal- and Reconstruction:Proto-Turkic/tal

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

Verb

*tāl-

(intransitive, Common Turkic) to sink

Derived terms

*tāluy (“sea, ocean”) (if not < MC 大灅 (dầj-lwi))
- Old Turkic: 𐱃𐰞𐰆𐰖 (taluy)
- →? Proto-Mongolic: *dalai (“sea”)
  - Mongolian: далай (dalaj)
    - → Tuvan: далай (dalay)
    - → Yakut: далай (dalay)
  - Buryat: далай (dalaj)
  - Kalmyk: дала (dala)

Descendants

Common Turkic:

Proto-Oghuz: *dāl-
- West Oghuz:
  - Old Anatolian Turkish: طالمق (dalmaq, “to dive”), دالمق (dalmaq)
    - Azerbaijani: dalmaq
    - Gagauz: dalmaa
    - Ottoman Turkish: طالمق (dalmak), دالمق (dalmak)
      - Turkish: dalmak
      - → Armenian: տալմիշ (talmiš), դալմիշ (dalmiš)
- East Oghuz:
  - Turkmen: dālmak (dial)
- North Kipchak:
  - Tatar: талау (talaw) (dial)
- West Kipchak:
  - Karaim: [script needed] (dal-)

References

Clauson, Gerard (1972) “”, in An Etymological Dictionary of pre-thirteenth-century Turkish, Oxford: Clarendon Press, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 502
Sevortjan, E. V. (1980) Etimologičeskij slovarʹ tjurkskix jazykov [Etymological Dictionary of Turkic Languages] (in Russian), volume 3, Moscow: Nauka, pages 133-134
Starostin, Sergei, Dybo, Anna, Mudrak, Oleg (2003) “*tāl-”, in Etymological dictionary of the Altaic languages (Handbuch der Orientalistik; VIII.8)‎^[1], Leiden, New York, Köln: E.J. Brill