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Reconstruction:Proto-Turkic/bōl-
Proto-Turkic
Etymology
Compare Proto-Mongolic *bol- (“to become”), Khitan 𘮧𘯶 (*p o, “to become, appoint”) and Proto-Uralic *wole- (“to be”).
Verb
*bōl-
- to become
Descendants
- →? Proto-Mongolic: *bol-
- Khalkha Mongolian: болох (bolox)
- Oghur:
- Bulgar: بَل (bal)
- Chuvash: пул (pul)
- Bulgar: بَل (bal)
- Oghuz:
- Old Anatolian Turkish:
- Azerbaijani: olmaq
- Ottoman Turkish: بولمق (bolmak), اولمق (olmak) (if not < *ol-)
- Turkish: olmak (if not < *ol-)
- Gagauz: olmaa
- Turkmen: bōlmak
- Salar: vol, bo
- Old Anatolian Turkish:
- Karluk:
- Karakhanid: بُلْماقْ (bolmāq)
- Khorezmian Turkic: [script needed] (bol-), [script needed] (ol-) (if not < *ol-)
- Chagatai: [script needed] (bolmaq)
- Uyghur: بولماق (bolmaq)
- Uzbek: boʻlmoq
- Chagatai: [script needed] (bolmaq)
- Khorezmian Turkic: [script needed] (bol-), [script needed] (ol-) (if not < *ol-)
- Karakhanid: بُلْماقْ (bolmāq)
- Kipchak:
- Kipchak: بُولْ (bol-)
- West Kipchak:
- Crimean Tatar: bolmaq
- Kumyk: болмакъ (bolmaq)
- Karachay-Balkar: болургъа (bolurğa)
- Karaim: bolmak
- North Kipchak:
- Bashkir: булыу (bulıw)
- Tatar: булу (bulu)
- East Kipchak:
- Kyrgyz: болуу (boluu)
- Southern Altai: болор (bolor)
- South Kipchak:
- Kazakh: болу (bolu)
- Nogai: болув (boluv)
- Karakalpak: boli'w
- Siberian:
- Old Turkic:
- Old Turkic: 𐰉𐰆𐰞 (b¹ul¹ /bol-/)
- Old Uyghur: [script needed] (bol-)
- Old Turkic: 𐰉𐰆𐰞 (b¹ul¹ /bol-/)
- North Siberian:
- Dolgan: буол (buol)
- Yakut: буол (buol)
- South Siberian:
- Sayan:
- Tuvan: болур (bolur)
- Tofa:
- Yenisei:
- Khakas: поларға (polarğa)
- Shor:
- Western Yugur:
- Sayan:
- Old Turkic:
References
- Clauson, Gerard (1972), “bol-”, in An Etymological Dictionary of pre-thirteenth-century Turkish, Oxford: Clarendon Press, page 331
- Starostin, Sergei; Dybo, Anna; Mudrak, Oleg (2003), “*bōl-”, in Etymological dictionary of the Altaic languages (Handbuch der Orientalistik; VIII.8), Leiden, New York, Köln: E.J. Brill