Reconstruction:Proto-Turkic/teker

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

Compared to Proto-Turkic *tegir-, *tegirmen, but descendant languages such as Oghuz point *teker.

Noun

*teker

1. hoop, circle

   Synonyms: *tegirmi, *tögerek

Derived terms

• *tekrek

Descendants

• Oghur:
  • Volga Bulgar:
    • Chuvash: тӗкӗр (tĕk̬ĕr, “mirror”)
    • → Western Mari: тӹгӹр (tÿgÿr, “mirror”)
  • → Hungarian: tükör (“mirror”)
• Oghuz:
  • Old Anatolian Turkish:
    • Azerbaijani: təkər
    • Ottoman Turkish: تكر (teker), تكرلك (tekerlek)
      • Turkish: teker, tekerlek
• ⇒ Proto-Turkic: *tekrek, *tekerek

• Xiongnu:
  • →? Old Chinese: 丁零
  • → Old Chinese: 敕勒, 鐵勒, 特勒
• Karluk:
  • Karakhanid: تَكْرَكْ (tekrek)
    • Chagatai:
• Kipchak: [script needed] (tigrek)
  • South Kipchak:
    • Kyrgyz-Kipchak:
      • Kyrgyz: тегерек (tegerek)
      • Southern Altai: тегерик (tegerik)

References

• Starostin, Sergei, Dybo, Anna, Mudrak, Oleg (2003) “*deg- / *dög- / *dog-”, in Etymological dictionary of the Altaic languages (Handbuch der Orientalistik; VIII.8), Leiden, New York, Köln: E.J. Brill
• al-Kashgarî, Mahmud (1072–1074) Besim Atalay, transl., Divanü Lûgat-it-Türk Tercümesi [Translation of the “Compendium of the languages of the Turks”] (Türk Dil Kurumu Yayınları; 521) (in Turkish), 1985 edition, volume I, Ankara: Türk Tarih Kurmu Basımevi, published 1939–1943, page 477
• Koç, Dr. Öğr. Üyesi Hayrettin İhsan (July 2019). Prof. Dr. Zafer ÖNLER ARMAĞANI. Tiele 鐵勒 ve Tölish I. pp. 395-455.