Reconstruction:Proto-Turkic/yān-

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.

See also: Reconstruction:Proto-Turkic/yan-, Reconstruction:Proto-Turkic/yāń-, and Reconstruction:Proto-Turkic/yān

Proto-Turkic

Etymology

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Verb

*yān-

1. to threaten

Descendants

• Common Turkic:

• Oghuz:
  • Old Anatolian Turkish:
    • Azerbaijani: yanımaq
    • Gagauz: yaanmaa, yaandırmaa
• Karluk:
  • Karakhanid: يَنْدُرْماقْ (yandurmāq, “to threaten”), يَنِغْ (yanığ, “threatening”)
    • Uyghur: [script needed] (ǯonu-)
    • Uzbek: [script needed] (yan-)
• Kipchak: يَنْماقْ (yanmāq, “to threaten”)
  • North Kipchak:
    • Bashkir: [script needed] (yana-)
    • Tatar: [script needed] (yana-)
  • West Kipchak:
    • Karachay-Balkar: [script needed] (žan-, žaŋ-, ǯanï-, zanï-)
• Siberian:
  • Old Uyghur: [script needed] (yan-)
  • North Siberian:
    • Yakut: саан (saan)

References

• Starostin, Sergei, Dybo, Anna, Mudrak, Oleg (2003) “*jān(u)-”, in Etymological dictionary of the Altaic languages (Handbuch der Orientalistik; VIII.8), Leiden, New York, Köln: E.J. Brill
• Baskakov, N. A. (1991) İsmail Kaynak, A. Mecit Doğru, transl., Gagauz Türkçesinin Sözlüğü [The Dictionary of Gagauz Turkish] (in Turkish), Ankara: Kültür Bakanlığı Yayınları, page 254
• 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 III, Ankara: Türk Tarih Kurmu Basımevi, published 1939–1943, page 14,