Reconstruction:Proto-Turkic/bile

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 forms

*bula

Alternative reconstructions

*bilen
*birlen
*birle

Etymology

Possibly derived from *bīr (“1, one”). Also akin to *birge and *birče with similar meaning.

Reconstruction notes

The letter /-l-/ turns into the letter /-n-/ in several Kypchak languages.
Gokturk, Old Uyghur and Ottoman words birle possibly inherited from another different variant.

Preposition

*bile

with

Adverb

*bile

also
together

Descendants

Oghur:
- Chuvash: пӗрле (pĕrle, “together”), -пе (-pe), -па (-pa)
Common Turkic: *birle

Arghu:
- Khalaj: bilə, -la, -lan, -lə, -lən
Oghuz:
- West Oghuz:
  - Old Anatolian Turkish:
    - Azerbaijani: ilə, -la, -lə
    - Ottoman Turkish: ایله‎ (ile), برله‎ (birle); بیله‎ (bile); ایلن‎ (ilen); ـله‎ (-le, -la)
      - Turkish: ile, -le
- East Oghuz:
  - Turkmen: bilen
Karluk:
- Karakhanid: [script needed] (birlä, bilä)
  - Chagatai: بيلان, برلە‎ (bilän, birlä)
    - Uyghur: بىلەن‎ (bilen)
    - Uzbek: bilan
Kipchak:
- North Kipchak:
  - Bashkir: менән (menän)
  - Tatar: белән (belän)
- West Kipchak:
  - Crimean Tatar: ile
  - Karachay-Balkar: бла (bla)
  - Kumyk: булан (bulan)
- South Kipchak:
  - Karakalpak: менен
  - Kazakh: мен (men)
  - Nogai: мен (men)
- East Kipchak:
  - Kyrgyz: менен (menen)
  - Southern Altai: мынаҥ (mïnaŋ)
Siberian:
- Old Turkic: [script needed] (birle)
- Old Uyghur: [script needed] (birlä)
- South Siberian:
  - Tuvan: -биле (-bile), биле (bile)
  - Western Yugur: pli

Refereences

http://turkic.elegantlexicon.com/turkforms.php?form=with
Clauson, Gerard (1972) An Etymological Dictionary of pre-thirteenth-century Turkish, Oxford: Clarendon Press, page 364-365
Sevortjan, E. V. (1978) Etimologičeskij slovarʹ tjurkskix jazykov [Etymological Dictionary of Turkic Languages]‎ (in Russian), volume 2, Moscow: Nauka, page 140-142
Starostin, Sergei; Dybo, Anna; Mudrak, Oleg (2003), “*bile (bula)”, in Etymological dictionary of the Altaic languages (Handbuch der Orientalistik; VIII.8), Leiden, New York, Köln: E.J. Brill