Reconstruction:Proto-Turkic/us

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

Noun

*us

1. (Oghuz Turkic) intelligence

Descendants

• Common Turkic:

• Oghuz: اُسْ (us, “intelligence”), اُسْلاماقْ (uslamak, “to understand”)
  • Old Anatolian Turkish: اوصى (ussı)
    • Azerbaijani: uslu
    • Ottoman Turkish: اوص (us)
      • Balkan Gagauz Turkish: uslu, usa (“worry”), usamak (“to worry, suffer”)
      • Gagauz: uslu
      • Turkish: us (“mind”), uslu (“well-behaved”), uslanmak (“to settle down, sober”), usul (“slow”) (Can this⁽⁺⁾ etymology be sourced?)
  • Salar: uslağusı (“to suffer”)
  • Turkmen: os, oslamak, oslanmak, oslagsyz, osal (Can this⁽⁺⁾ etymology be sourced?)
  • → Cuman-Kipchak:
    • Karaim: [script needed] (us)
    • → Chuvash: ӑс (ăs)

References

• Starostin, Sergei, Dybo, Anna, Mudrak, Oleg (2003) Etymological dictionary of the Altaic languages (Handbuch der Orientalistik; VIII.8), Leiden, New York, Köln: E.J. Brill