Reconstruction:Proto-Turkic/kenče

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Reconstruction:Proto-Turkic/kenče

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

Adjective

*kenče

1. young

Descendants

• Oghur:
  • >? Chuvash: каччӑ (kaččă, “young man”)
    • → Eastern Mari: каче (kače, “bridegroom”)
  • → Proto-Mongolic: *kenǰe
    • Manchu: [script needed] (kenje, “frail, tiny, small”)
    • Middle Mongolian: ᠬᠡᠨᠵᠡ (kenǰe):

• Buryat: хэнзэ (xenze)
• Kalmyk: кенз (kenz, “autumn-born small livestock; autumn grass”)
• Mongolian: хэнз (khenz, “late-grown crop; animal born late in the season”)
• → Bashkir: кинйә (kinyä)
• → Kumyk: генже (genje)
• → Kyrgyz: кенже (kenje)
• → Tatar: кинцә (kintsä) (dialectal)
• → Tuvan: хенче (xençe, “autumn-born small livestock”)
• → Chagatai: کنجه‎ (kenje, “child born to an aged father; child in general”)
  • Uyghur: كەنجە‎ (kenje, “youngster”)
  • Uzbek: kenja (“youngest child”)
    • → Tajik: кенҷа (kenja, “youngest child”)
      • → Yagnobi: [script needed] (kenǰá, kanǰá), ⇒ [script needed] (kenǰagí)

• Common Turkic: *kenč:

• Oghuz:
  • Old Anatolian Turkish: [Term?]
    • Azerbaijani: gənc
    • Ottoman Turkish: گنج‎
      • Gagauz: genç
      • Turkish: genç
      • → Armenian: կէնճ (kēnč)
      • → Crimean Tatar: genç
• Karluk:
  • Karakhanid: کَنْجْ‎ (kenč)
• Siberian:
  • Old Uyghur: [script needed] (kenč)

References

• Doerfer, Gerhard (1963) Türkische und mongolische Elemente im Neupersischen [Turkic and Mongolian Elements in New Persian] (Akademie der Wissenschaften und der Literatur: Veröffentlichungen der Orientalischen Kommission; 16) (in German), volume 1, Wiesbaden: Franz Steiner Verlag, § 352, page 488
• Sevortjan, E. V. (1980) Etimologičeskij slovarʹ tjurkskix jazykov [Etymological Dictionary of Turkic Languages]‎ (in Russian), volume 3, Moscow: Nauka, page 20-21
• Starostin, Sergei; Dybo, Anna; Mudrak, Oleg (2003), “*gEnč”, in Etymological dictionary of the Altaic languages (Handbuch der Orientalistik; VIII.8), Leiden, New York, Köln: E.J. Brill
• Sanžejev, G. D.; Orlovskaja, M. N.; Ševernina, Z. V. (2016) Etimologičeskij slovarʹ mongolʹskix jazykov: v 3 t. [Etymological dictionary of Mongolic languages: in 3 vols.] (in Russian), volume II, Moscow: Institute of Oriental Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences, page 118