Reconstruction:Proto-Turkic/ōk

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

Alternative forms

• *ūk

Etymology

This stem has often been connected with *ok (“arrow”).

Noun

*ōk

1. kin, tribe

   Synonym: *bod

Declension

Declension of *ōk

	Singular 3)
Nominative	*ōk
Accusative	*ōkug, *ōknï1)
Genitive	*ōknuŋ
Dative	*ōkka
Locative	*ōkda
Ablative	*ōkdan
Allative	*ōkgaru
Instrumental 2)	*ōkun
Equative 2)	*ōkča
Similative 2)	*ōklayu
Comitative 2)	*ōklugu

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

Derived terms

• >? Proto-Turkic: *ōkuŕ

Descendants

• Oghur
  • Chuvash: йӑх (jăh)
• Common Turkic:

• Oghuz:
  • >? Turkish: ok atmak (dial.)
• Karluk:
  • Karakhanid: اُوقْ (ōq, “share of inheritance”)
• Kypchak:
  • Kypchak-Nogai:
    • Kazakh: [script needed] (ŭq) (dialectal)
• Siberian:
  • South Siberian:
    • Old Turkic: 𐰸 (uq ~ oq, “kin, tribe”)
    • Sayan:
      • Tuvan: ук (uk)

References

• Clauson, Gerard (1972) “O:k "a share of an inheritance"”, in An Etymological Dictionary of pre-thirteenth-century Turkish, Oxford: Clarendon Press, page 76