Reconstruction:Proto-Turkic/yē-

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

Akin to Proto-Mongolic *je-mü- (“to be hungry”), Proto-Tungusic *ǯe-, *ǯep- (“to eat”). (Can this⁽⁺⁾ etymology be sourced?)

Verb

*yē-

1. (transitive) to eat

Descendants

• Oghur:
  • Chuvash: ҫи (śi)
• Common Turkic:

• Arghu:
  • Khalaj: yêmək
• Oghuz:
  • Old Anatolian Turkish:
    • Azerbaijani: yemək
    • Ottoman Turkish: یمك (yemek, yimek)
      • Turkish: yemek
      • Gagauz: imää
  • Turkmen: iýmek
  • Salar: yigüsi, yegüsi
• Karluk:
  • Karakhanid: [script needed] (yemek)
    • Uyghur: يېمەك (yëmek)
    • Uzbek: yemoq
• Kipchak:
  • North Kipchak:
    • Bashkir: ейеү (yeyew, “to eat”) (archaic), Bashkir: ем (yem, “food”)
    • ⇒ Tatar: җим (cim)
  • West Kipchak:
    • Crimean Tatar:
    • Karachay-Balkar: [script needed] (ye-)
    • Karaim: [script needed] (ye-)
  • South Kipchak:
    • Caspian:
      • Karakalpak: jew
      • Kazakh: жеу (jeu)
      • Nogai: ев (yev)
    • Kyrgyz-Kipchak:
      • Kyrgyz: жөө (jöö)
      • Southern Altai: јиир (ǰiir)
• Siberian:
  • ⇒ Old Turkic: 𐰘𐰃𐰘𐰇 (y²iy²ü, “eating”)
  • Old Uyghur: [script needed] (ye-)
    • Western Yugur: [script needed] (yi-)
  • North Siberian:
    • Yakut: сиэ (sie)
    • Dolgan: һиэ (hie)
  • South Siberian:
    • Sayan:
      • Tuvan: чиир (çiir)
      • Tofa: чиир (çiir)
    • Yenisei Turkic:
      • Khakas: чирге (çirge)
      • Shor: [script needed] (čii-)

References

• [1]
• Starostin, Sergei, Dybo, Anna, Mudrak, Oleg (2003) “*jē-”, in Etymological dictionary of the Altaic languages (Handbuch der Orientalistik; VIII.8), Leiden, New York, Köln: E.J. Brill