Reconstruction:Proto-Turkic/kab-

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Reconstruction:Proto-Turkic/kab-

This Proto-Turkic entry contains reconstructed words 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

Compare Proto-Mongolic *kabi-.

Verb

*kab-

1. to unite, bring together
2. to be brought together

Descendants

• ⇒ Proto-Turkic: *kab-ur- (“to unite, bring together”)

• Oghur:
  • Danube Bulgar:
    • → Bulgarian: Кубрат (Kubrat)
    • → Greek: Κοβρᾶτος (Kovrᾶtos)
• Oghuz:
  • Turkmen: gowurmak
• Karluk:
  • Karakhanid: [script needed] (qavur-)
• Kipchak:
  • South Kipchak:
    • Kyrgyz-Kipchak:
      • Southern Altai: [script needed] (qabïr-)
• Siberian:
  • Old Uyghur: [script needed] (qavïr-)
  • South Siberian:
    • Sayan:
      • Tuvan: [script needed] (xavïr-)
      • Tofa: [script needed] (xabïr-)

• ⇒ Proto-Turkic: *kab-ïĺč- (“to be brought together, to approach each other, reciprocative of *kab-”)

• Oghuz:
  • Old Anatolian Turkish: [Term?]
    • Azerbaijani: govuşmaq
    • Ottoman Turkish: [Term?]
      • Turkish: kavuşmak, kavşak
      • Gagauz: kauşmaa
  • Turkmen: gowuşmak
• Karluk:
  • Karakhanid: [script needed] (qawış-)
    • Uzbek: qowushmoq
    • Uyghur: [script needed] (qawış-) (dialect)
• Kipchak: [script needed] (qawuş-)
  • Kipchak: [script needed] (qawşut)
  • North Kipchak:
    • Bashkir: [script needed] (qawış-)
    • Tatar: [script needed] (qawış-)
  • West Kipchak:
    • Karaim: [script needed] (qawuş-)
  • South Kipchak:
    • Caspian:
      • Karakalpak: [script needed] (qawıs-)
      • Kazakh: қауысу (qawısw)
      • Nogai: [script needed] (qawış-)
    • Kyrgyz-Kipchak:
      • Kyrgyz: коошуу (qooşuu)
• Siberian:
  • Yenisei Kyrgyz: [script needed] (qavïš-)
  • Old Turkic: [script needed] (qabïš-)
  • Old Uyghur: [script needed] (qavïš-)
    • Western Yugur: [script needed] (qawïs-)

• ⇒ Proto-Turkic: *kab-ït-
  • Old Uyghur: [script needed] (qavït-, “to come across”)
• →? Proto-Mongolic: *kabi-
  • ⇒ Proto-Mongolic: *kabi-ra- (“to touch, whet; to stand close to one another”)
    • Mongolian: хавирах (khavirakh, “to grind, whet”)
  • ⇒ Proto-Mongolic: *kabi-ldu
    • Mongolian: хавилдуу (khavilduu, “close, nearby”)
  • Mongolian: хавьтах (khavitakh, “to come up beside; to couple; to approach; to have a sexual intercourse”)

References

• Tekin, T. (1988). TÜRKÇE / ş /, ÇUVAŞÇA / ś / AND MOĞOLCA / ç /. Türk Dili Araştırmaları Yıllığı - Belleten, 34 (1986), 71-75.
• Starostin, Sergei; Dybo, Anna; Mudrak, Oleg (2003), “*Kab-”, in Etymological dictionary of the Altaic languages (Handbuch der Orientalistik; VIII.8), Leiden, New York, Köln: E.J. Brill