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

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