Reconstruction:Proto-Turkic/yeŕne

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

Similarity to Spanish yerno (“son-in-law”) is highly a coincidence.

Compare also Chuvash ҫамрӑк (śamrăk), Hungarian gyermek.

Noun

*yeŕne

1. son-in-law, sister's husband

   Synonym: *küdegü

Declension

Declension of *yeŕne

	Singular 3)
Nominative	*yeŕne
Accusative	*yeŕneg, *yeŕneni1)
Genitive	*yeŕneniŋ
Dative	*yeŕneke
Locative	*yeŕnede
Ablative	*yeŕneden
Allative	*yeŕnegerü
Instrumental 2)	*yeŕnen
Equative 2)	*yeŕneče
Similative 2)	*yeŕneleyü
Comitative 2)	*yeŕneligü

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

• Oghur:
  • Chuvash: йысна (jysna)
• Common Turkic:

• Proto-Oghuz: *yezne
  • Old Anatolian Turkish:
    • Azerbaijani: yeznə
  • Turkmen: ýeznä
• Karluk:
  • Uzbek: yezna
• Kipchak:
  • North Kipchak:
    • Bashkir: еҙнә (yeźnə)
    • Tatar: җизнә (ciznä), җизни (cizni)
  • South Kipchak:
    • Kazakh: жезде (jezde)
  • Kyrgyz-Kipchak:
    • Kyrgyz: жезде (jezde)
    • Southern Altai: јесте (ǰeste)
• Siberian:
  • Old Uyghur:
    • Western Yugur: yezde
  • South Siberian:
    • Sayan Turkic:
      • Tuvan: честе (çeste)
    • Yenisei:
      • Khakas: чисте (çiste)
      • Shor: честе (çeste)

References

• Clauson, Gerard (1972) “”, in An Etymological Dictionary of pre-thirteenth-century Turkish, Oxford: Clarendon Press, page 988
• Räsänen, Martti (1969) Versuch eines etymologischen Wörterbuchs der Türksprachen (in German), Helsinki: Suomalais-ugrilainen seura, page 199
• Sevortjan, E. V., Levitskaja, L. S. (1989) Etimologičeskij slovarʹ tjurkskix jazykov [Etymological Dictionary of Turkic Languages] (in Russian), volume 4, Moscow: Nauka, pages 169-170
• Doerfer, Gerhard (1975) Türkische und mongolische Elemente im Neupersischen [Turkic and Mongolian Elements in New Persian] (Akademie der Wissenschaften und der Literatur: Veröffentlichungen der Orientalischen Kommission; 21)‎^[1] (in German), volume 4, Wiesbaden: Franz Steiner Verlag, page 165
• Starostin, Sergei, Dybo, Anna, Mudrak, Oleg (2003) “*yeŕne”, in Etymological dictionary of the Altaic languages (Handbuch der Orientalistik; VIII.8)‎^[2], Leiden, New York, Köln: E.J. Brill
• Tenišev E. R., editor (1984–2006), Sravnitelʹno-istoričeskaja grammatika tjurkskix jazykov: [Comparative Historical Grammar of Turkic Languages:] (in Russian), Moscow: Nauka, page 298