Reconstruction:Proto-Turkic/yol-

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

Alternative reconstructions

• *yolï-
• *yul(ï)-

Etymology

According to the logic of Turkic per-y, Mongolic per-j, Tungusic per-ń, compared to Proto-Mongolic *jul- (“to pick, pluck; to lose hair, be plucked”) and Proto-Tungusic *ńul- (“to exuviate, fade”). (Can this⁽⁺⁾ etymology be sourced?) See also Proto-Turkic *yạŕ-.

Verb

*yol-

1. (transitive) to tear out, pick out, pluck

Descendants

• Oghur:
  • Chuvash: ҫул (śul)
• Common Turkic:

• Oghuz:
  • Old Anatolian Turkish:
    • Azerbaijani: yolmaq
    • Ottoman Turkish: یولمق (yolmak)
      • Turkish: yolmak
      • Gagauz: yolmaa
  • Turkmen: ýolmak
• Karluk:
  • Karakhanid: یُلْماقْ (yolmaq)
    • Uzbek: yulmoq
    • Uyghur: يۇلماق (yulmaq)
• Kipchak:
  • Kipchak–Bulgar:
    • Bashkir: йолҡоу (yolqow)
    • Tatar: [script needed] (yolqu-)
  • Kipchak–Cuman:
    • Crimean Tatar: yulqmaq
    • Karachay-Balkar: [script needed] (culk-)
    • Karaim: [script needed] (yulu-)
  • Kipchak–Nogai:
    • Karakalpak: julıw
    • Kazakh: жұлу (jūlu)
    • Kyrgyz–Kipchak:
      • Kyrgyz: жулуу (juluu)
      • Southern Altai: јулар (ǰular)
• Siberian:
  • Old Turkic: 𐰖𐰆𐰞- (y¹ul¹-)
    • Old Uyghur: [script needed] (yol-, yul-)
      • Western Yugur: [script needed] (yul-)
  • North Siberian:
    • Yakut: сулуй (suluy)
  • South Siberian:
    • Sayan:
      • Tuvan: [script needed] (çul-)
    • Yenisei:
      • Shor: [script needed] (çul-)
      • Khakas: [script needed] (çul-)

References

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