Reconstruction:Proto-Turkic/kaŕgan

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Reconstruction:Proto-Turkic/kaŕgan

Proto-Turkic

Etymology

Analysis as *kaŕ- (“to dig out”) +‎ *-gan is often proposed, however not without some controversy, see literature for details.

Noun

*kaŕgan

1. cauldron

Descendants

• Common Turkic:
  • Kipchak:
    • North Kipchak:
      • Bashkir: ҡаҙан (qaðan)
      • Tatar: казан (qazan)
    • South Kipchak
      • Kazakh: қазан (qazan)
      • Kyrgyz: казан (kazan)
      • Siberian Tatar: казаннау (“to prepare in a cauldron”)
    • West Kipchak:
      • Crimean Tatar: qazan
      • Karachay-Balkar: къазан
  • Karluk:
    • Karakhanid: قَزْغانْ‎ (qazɣān, “dug out”) (uncertain)
    • Khorezmian Turkic: [script needed] (qazan)
    • Uzbek: qozon
  • Oghuz:
    • West Oghuz:
      • Azerbaijani: qazan
      • Gagauz: kazan
      • Ottoman Turkish: قزان‏‎ (qazan), قزغان‎
        • Turkish: kazan
        • → Albanian: kazan
        • → Armenian: խազան (xazan), ղազան (łazan), կազան (kazan), ղզղան (łzłan)
        • → Aromanian: cãzáne
        • → Bulgarian: каза̀н (kazàn)
        • → Greek: καζάνι (kazáni)
        • → Macedonian: казан (kazan)
        • → Romanian: cazàn
        • → Serbo-Croatian:

          Cyrillic: ка̀зан

          Latin: kàzan

    • East Oghuz:
      • Turkmen: gaazan
  • Siberian:
    • South Siberian:
      • Khakas: хазан (xazan)
      • Shor: қазан (xazan)
      • Southern Altai: казан (kazan)
• Oghur:
  • Chuvash: хуран (huran)
  • → Hungarian: harang (“bell”) (uncertain)
• → Middle Mongolian: [Arabic needed] (qazghan) (Ibn Muhanna)

Further reading

• Clauson, Gerard (1972), “kazğa:n”, in An Etymological Dictionary of pre-thirteenth-century Turkish, Oxford: Clarendon Press, page 682
• Levitskaja, L. S.; Dybo, A. V.; Rassadin, V. I. (2000) Etimologičeskij slovarʹ tjurkskix jazykov [Etymological Dictionary of Turkic Languages]‎ (in Russian), volume 6, Moscow: Indrik, page 188
• Doerfer, Gerhard (1967) Türkische und mongolische Elemente im Neupersischen [Turkic and Mongolian Elements in New Persian] (Akademie der Wissenschaften und der Literatur: Veröffentlichungen der Orientalischen Kommission; 20) (in German), volume 3, Wiesbaden: Franz Steiner Verlag, page 1390