Reconstruction:Proto-Turkic/tūč

Proto-Turkic

Etymology

The general consensus is that it is a native term. On the other hand, Doerfer considers it a borrowing from Middle Chinese 銅子 (MC duwng tsiX, “copper coin”), however note that the form tunč is a recent innovation prompted by vowel length.

Noun

*tūč

1. (Common Turkic) a yellowish metal, presumably bronze

Descendants

• Common Turkic:

• Oghuz:
  • West Oghuz:
    • Old Anatolian Turkish:
      • Azerbaijani: tunc
      • Ottoman Turkish: توج, تونج (tunc, tunç), طونج (tunc, tunç)
        • Turkish: tunç
        • → Albanian: tuç, tunxh, tunsh, tuç, trunç, trunxh, truxh (archaic)
        • → Arabic: تُوج (tūj), تُونْج (tunj) (archaic)
        • → Armenian: թուջ (tʻuǰ)
        • → Aromanian: tuciu, tunge, tungiu
        • → Bulgarian: туч (tuč), тунч (tunč) (archaic)
        • → Crimean Tatar: tunç, tuç
        • → Georgian:
        • → Greek: τούντζι (toúntzi), τούντζυ (toúntzy)
        • → Kurdish:

          Northern Kurdish: tûnc, tunc, tûc

        • → Macedonian: туч (tuč) (archaic)
        • → Persian: توج (tuj) (archaic)
        • → Romanian: tuci
        • → Serbo-Croatian: (archaic)

          Cyrillic script: ту̏ч

          Latin script: tȕč

• Karluk:
  • Karakhanid: تُوجْ (tūč)
    • Chagatai: [script needed] (tuč)
• Kipchak: [script needed] (tuč)
• Siberian:
  • >? Old Turkic: 𐱅𐰆𐰲 (tuč) (If not read artuč)
    • Old Uyghur: [script needed] (tuč)

See also

Minerals in Proto-Turkic
Stone	stone: *tāĺ	Iron	iron: *temür	Silver	silver: *kümüĺ
Gold	gold: *altūn	Strawberry	copper: *bakïr	Chalk	chalk or earth: *bōr
Coal	coal: *kömür	Salt	salt: *tūŕ	Lead	lead: *korguĺčïn

References

• Clauson, Gerard (1972) “tu:ç”, in An Etymological Dictionary of pre-thirteenth-century Turkish, Oxford: Clarendon Press, page 449
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “tunç”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Räsänen, Martti (1969) Versuch eines etymologischen Wörterbuchs der Türksprachen (in German), Helsinki: Suomalais-ugrilainen seura, page 499