Reconstruction:Proto-Turkic/ukruk

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

Doerfer suggests three possibilities:

1. Related to *uruk, however Clauson doesn't connect the two on the basis of semantics and morphology.
2. A compound *ok (“arrow”) +‎ *uruk (“rope”).
3. A diminutive from *okur ~ *ukur based on Yakut оҕуур (oğuur, “lasso”).

Noun

*ukruk

1. lasso, lasso pole

Declension

Declension of *ukruk

	Singular 3)
Nominative	*ukruk
Accusative	*ukrukug, *ukruknï1)
Genitive	*ukruknuŋ
Dative	*ukrukka
Locative	*ukrukda
Ablative	*ukrukdan
Allative	*ukrukgaru
Instrumental 2)	*ukrukun
Equative 2)	*ukrukča
Similative 2)	*ukruklayu
Comitative 2)	*ukruklugu

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.

Descendants

• Common Turkic:

• Oghuz:
  • East Oghuz:
    • Turkmen: ukuruk
• Karluk:
  • Karakhanid: اُقْرُقْ (uqruq)
    • Uyghur: [script needed] (oquruq)
    • Uzbek: qoʻruq
• Kipchak:
  • North Kipchak:
    • Bashkir: ҡороҡ (qoroq)
    • Tatar: курык (qurıq)
  • Central Kipchak:
    • Kazakh: құрық (qūryq)
    • Nogai: [script needed] (qurıq)
  • East Kipchak:
    • Kyrgyz: укурук (ukuruk)
    • Southern Altai: урук (uruk)
• Siberian:
  • North Siberian:
    • Yakut: оҕуур (oğuur, “lasso”), оҕурук (oğuruk, “fetter”)
• → Proto-Mongolic: *uxurga (“lasso pole”)

References

• Clauson, Gerard (1972) “”, in An Etymological Dictionary of pre-thirteenth-century Turkish, Oxford: Clarendon Press, page 360
• Doerfer, Gerhard (1965) Türkische und mongolische Elemente im Neupersischen [Turkic and Mongolian Elements in New Persian] (Akademie der Wissenschaften und der Literatur: Veröffentlichungen der Orientalischen Kommission; 19)‎^[1] (in German), volume II, Wiesbaden: Franz Steiner Verlag, pages 86-87
• Sevortjan, E. V. (1974) Etimologičeskij slovarʹ tjurkskix jazykov [Etymological Dictionary of Turkic Languages] (in Russian), volume 1, Moscow: Nauka, pages 585-586
• Starostin, Sergei, Dybo, Anna, Mudrak, Oleg (2003) “*ukruk”, in Etymological dictionary of the Altaic languages (Handbuch der Orientalistik; VIII.8)‎^[2], Leiden, New York, Köln: E.J. Brill