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Reconstruction:Proto-Turkic/ben
Proto-Turkic
Etymology
From oblique case of *bẹ. Often connected to Proto-Mongolic *bi (“I”) and Proto-Tungusic *bi (“I”).
Pronoun
*ben
- I
Inflection
Declension of Proto-Turkic/ben
nominative | *bẹ, *ben |
---|---|
accusative | *beni |
genitive | *beniŋ |
dative | *benke |
instrumental | *ben bile |
locative | *bente |
ablative | *benten |
Postposition
*ben
- Denotes "to be" for first person singular when at the end of an object; am
- Denotes first person singular after various tenses
Related terms
- *biŕ (“we”)
Derived terms
- *bẹ-niŋ
- *bẹ-ni
Descendants
- Oghur:
- Chuvash: эпӗ (ep̬ĕ) (actually from *bẹ)
- Common Turkic: *ben
- Arghu:
- Khalaj: mən
- Oghuz:
- Proto-Oghuz: *ben
- Old Anatolian Turkish: بن (ben), ـون (-ven)
- Azerbaijani: mən
- Ottoman Turkish: بن (ben), ـم (-m, -im)
- Gagauz: bän
- Turkish: ben, -im
- Salar: [script needed] (mēn), men
- Turkmen: men, -in
- Old Anatolian Turkish: بن (ben), ـون (-ven)
- Proto-Oghuz: *ben
- Karluk:
- Karakhanid: مَنْ (men)
- Khorezmian Turkic: [script needed] (ben), [script needed] (men)
- Chagatai: من (men)
- Uzbek: men
- Uyghur: مەن (men)
- Chagatai: من (men)
- Khorezmian Turkic: [script needed] (ben), [script needed] (men)
- Karakhanid: مَنْ (men)
- Kipchak:
- Kipchak: من (män)
- North Kipchak:
- Bashkir: мин (min)
- Tatar: мин (min)
- West Kipchak:
- Crimean Tatar: men
- Karachay-Balkar: мен (men)
- Kumyk: мен (men)
- South Kipchak:
- Caspian:
- Kazakh: мен (men)
- Karakalpak: мен
- Nogai: мен (men)
- Kyrgyz-Kipchak:
- Kyrgyz: мен (men)
- Southern Altai: мен (men)
- Caspian:
- North Kipchak:
- Kipchak: من (män)
- Siberian:
- Old Turkic:
- Old Turkic: 𐰢𐰤 (mn² /men/), 𐰋𐰤 (b²n² /ben/)
- Old Uyghur: pʾn (ben), mʾn (men)
- Western Yugur: [script needed] (men)
- Yenisei Kyrgyz: 𐰌𐰥 (/ben/)
- North Siberian:
- Dolgan: мин (min)
- Yakut: мин (min)
- South Siberian:
- Sayan Turkic:
- Tofa: мен (men)
- Tuvan: мен (men)
- Yenisei Turkic:
- Khakas: мин (min)
- Shor: мен (men)
- Sayan Turkic:
- Old Turkic:
Further reading
- Starostin, Sergei; Dybo, Anna; Mudrak, Oleg (2003), “*bĭ̀”, in Etymological dictionary of the Altaic languages (Handbuch der Orientalistik; VIII.8), Leiden, New York, Köln: E.J. Brill
- Clauson, Gerard (1972), “ben”, in An Etymological Dictionary of pre-thirteenth-century Turkish, Oxford: Clarendon Press, page 346