Reconstruction:Proto-Turkic/bulga-

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

Verb

*bulga-

to stir, stir up
to produce a state of disorder

Derived terms

*bulgak
*bulgaĺ
*bulgama
*bulgamak
*bulgagu
- *bulgagučï
*bulgap
*bulgayu
*bulgagan
*bulgagma
*bulgar
*bulgatačï
*bulgagalï
*bulgama-
- *bulgamadïp
- *bulgamaŕ
*bulgan-
- *bulgańuk
- *bulganč
- *bulgantï
- *bulganmïĺ
- *bulgantur-
*bulgaĺ-
*bulgat-
*bulgak-
*bulgal-

Descendants

Oghur:
- Chuvash: пӑлхан (pălh̬an, “to become turbid”)
- →? Hungarian: bolygat (“to bother; to create disorder”), bolyong (“to wander, walk without a destination”)
Common Turkic: *bulga-

Oghuz:
- Proto-Oghuz: *bulɣa-
  - Old Anatolian Turkish: [script needed] (bulamaq)
    - Azerbaijani: bulamaq
    - Ottoman Turkish: بولامق‎ (bulamak)
      - Turkish: bulamak
  - Salar: bulğïla-
  - Turkmen: bulamak
Karluk:
- Karakhanid: بُلْغاماقْ‎ (bulɣāmāq)
  - Khorezmian Turkic: [script needed] (bulğamaq)
    - Chagatai: بولغاماق‎ (bulğamaq)
      - Uzbek: bulgʻamoq
      - Uyghur: بۇلغىماق‎ (bulghimaq)
Kipchak:
- Kipchak: بولغاماق‎ (bulğamaq)
  - North Kipchak:
    - Bashkir: болғау (bolğaw)
    - Tatar: болгау (bolgau)
  - West Kipchak:
    - Crimean Tatar: bulğamaq
    - Karaim: булгъа-
    - Kumyk: булгъамакъ (bulğamaq)
  - South Kipchak:
    - Caspian:
      - Kazakh: бұлғау (būlğau)
      - Nogai: булгав (bulgav)
    - Kyrgyz-Kipchak:
      - Kyrgyz: булгоо (bulgoo)
Siberian:
- Old Turkic: 𐰉𐰆𐰞𐰍𐰀‎ (b¹ul¹ǧa /bulɣa-/)
  - Old Uyghur: [script needed] (bulɣa-)
    - Western Yugur: pula-
- North Siberian:
  - Dolgan: булкуй
  - Yakut: булаа (bulaa)
- South Siberian:
  - Sayan:
    - Tuvan: былгаар (bılgaar)
  - Yenisei:
    - Khakas: пулғирға (pulğirğa)
    - Northern Altai: булгаар (bulgaar)

References

Clauson, Gerard (1972), “bulga:-”, in An Etymological Dictionary of pre-thirteenth-century Turkish, Oxford: Clarendon Press, page 337
Starostin, Sergei; Dybo, Anna; Mudrak, Oleg (2003), “*bulga-”, in Etymological dictionary of the Altaic languages (Handbuch der Orientalistik; VIII.8), Leiden, New York, Köln: E.J. Brill