Reconstruction:Proto-Turkic/buŕagu

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Reconstruction:Proto-Turkic/buŕagu

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

Presumably from *buŕ-a- (“to bear a calf”) +‎ *-gu. Cognate to Proto-Mongolic *biraxu (“calf”), however Mongolic might be a loanword.

The g-sounds in the middle of Proto-Turkic words are always x (ɣ) in Proto-Mongolic: Proto-Turkic *egir- (“to twist, spin”), Proto-Mongolic *exere- (“to twist”); Proto-Turkic *kagur- (“to roast, fry”), Proto-Mongolic *kaxur- (“to roast, bake, fry”); Proto-Turkic *yegin (“nephew”), Proto-Mongolic *jexe (“grandson, nephew”); Proto-Turkic *sag- (“to milk”), Proto-Mongolic *saxa- (“to milk”); Proto-Turkic *sagrï (“croup skin, shagreen”), Proto-Mongolic *saxari (“shagreen, callus”); Proto-Turkic *bögür (“kidney(s)”), Proto-Mongolic *böxere (“kidney(s)”)...

Noun

buŕagu

1. calf (baby cow)

Declension

Declension of *buŕagu

	Singular 3)
Nominative	*buŕagu
Accusative	*buŕagunu, *buŕagunug 1)
Genitive	*buŕagunuŋ
Dative	*buŕaguka
Locative	*buŕaguda
Ablative	*buŕagudan
Instrumental 2)	*buŕagun
Equative 2)	*buŕaguča

¹⁾ Found in early Proto-Turkic.
²⁾ The original instrumental and equative cases have fallen into disuse in many 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.

Derived terms

• *buŕagu-la-

Descendants

• Oghur:
  • Chuvash: пӑру (păru)
  • → Hungarian: borjú
• Common Turkic: *buzagu

• Oghuz:
  • Proto-Oghuz: *buzaɣu
    • Old Anatolian Turkish:
      • Azerbaijani: buzov
      • Ottoman Turkish: بوزاغو‎ (buzağu)
        • Gagauz: buzaa
        • Turkish: buzağı
• Karluk:
  • Karakhanid: بُزاغُو‎ (buzāɣū)
    • Chagatai: بوزاغو‎ (buzaɣu), بوزاغ‎ (buzaɣ)
      • Uzbek: buzoq
      • Uyghur: موزاي‎ (mozay)
• Kipchak:
  • Kipchak: بوزاو‎ (buzaw)
    • Mamluk-Kipchak: بوزاغو‎ (buzaɣu), بوزاو‎ (buzawu)
    • North Kipchak:
      • Bashkir: быҙау (bıðaw)
      • Tatar: бозау (bozau)
    • West Kipchak:
      • Karachay-Balkar: бузоу (buzou)
      • Krymchak: бузов
      • Kumyk: бузав (buzaw)
    • South Kipchak:
      • Caspian:
        • Kazakh: бұзау (būzau)
        • Karakalpak: бузаў, buzaw
        • Nogai: бузав (buzav)
      • Kyrgyz-Kipchak:
        • Kyrgyz: музоо (muzoo)
        • Southern Altai: бозу (bozu)
• Siberian:
  • Old Turkic: 𐰉𐰆𐰕𐰍𐰆‎ (b¹uzǧu /buzaɣu/)
    • Old Uyghur: pwz՚γw (buzaɣu)
  • South Siberian:
    • Sayan Turkic:
      • Tuvan: бызаа (bızaa)
    • Yenisei Turkic:
      • Khakas: пызо (pızo)
• →? Proto-Mongolic: *biraxu

References

• Starostin, Sergei; Dybo, Anna; Mudrak, Oleg (2003), “*bi̯ŏ́ŕu”, in Etymological dictionary of the Altaic languages (Handbuch der Orientalistik; VIII.8), Leiden, New York, Köln: E.J. Brill
• Clauson, Gerard (1972), “buza:ğu:”, in An Etymological Dictionary of pre-thirteenth-century Turkish, Oxford: Clarendon Press, page 391