Reconstruction:Proto-Turkic/tabïĺgan

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

*tabïĺgan.

Etymology

From *tabïĺ- (“to run”) +‎ *-gan. Akin to Proto-Mongolic *taxulai (“rabbit”) and Khitan 匋裏 (taul, “rabbit”). (Can this⁽⁺⁾ etymology be sourced?)

Noun

*tabïĺgan

1. hare

   Synonym: *kodan

Declension

Declension of *tabïĺgan

	singular 3)
nominative	*tabïĺgan
accusative	*tabïĺganïg, *tabïĺgannï1)
genitive	*tabïĺgannïŋ
dative	*tabïĺganka
locative	*tabïĺganta
ablative	*tabïĺgantan
allative	*tabïĺgangaru
instrumental 2)	*tabïĺganïn
equative 2)	*tabïĺganča
similative 2)	*tabïĺganlayu
comitative 2)	*tabïĺganlïgu

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

Descendants

• Karakhanid: تَڤِشْغانْ (tavïšɣān)
• Arghu:
  • Khalaj: tavuşğân
• Oghuz:
  • Azerbaijani: dovşan
  • Ottoman Turkish: طاوشان (tavşan)
    • Gagauz: tauşam
    • Turkish: tavşan
  • Salar: dovşan
  • Turkmen: towşan
  • → Mamluk-Kipchak: [Arabic needed] (ṭawšan)
  • → Kumyk: тавшан (tawşan)
  • → Nogai: тавшан (tavşan)
• Karluk:
  • Chagatai: تاووشقان (tawušqan)
    • Uzbek: tovushqon
    • Uyghur: توشقان (toshqan)
• Siberian:
  • Old Turkic: 𐱃𐰉𐰽𐰍𐰣 (t¹b¹s¹ǧn¹ /⁠tabïšɣan⁠/)
    • Old Uyghur: [script needed] (tʾβyšγʾn /⁠tavïšɣan⁠/)
      • Western Yugur: tusqan
  • North Siberian:
    • Yakut: табысхан (tabısqan)
  • South Siberian:
    • Yenisei Turkic:
      • Khakas: табысхан (tabısxan)
• ?→ Khitan: 匋裏 (taul)
  • ?→ Mongolic: *taxulai
    • Mongolian: туулай (tuulaj)

Further reading

• Clauson, Gerard (1972) “tavışğa:n”, in An Etymological Dictionary of pre-thirteenth-century Turkish, Oxford: Clarendon Press, page 447
• Starostin, Sergei, Dybo, Anna, Mudrak, Oleg (2003) “*tabɨĺgan”, in Etymological dictionary of the Altaic languages (Handbuch der Orientalistik; VIII.8), Leiden, New York, Köln: E.J. Brill