Reconstruction:Proto-Turkic/kün

This Proto-Turkic entry contains reconstructed terms 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

Noun

*kün

day
Coordinate terms: *tün (“night”), *kēče (“late, evening”), *ẹ̄r (“early, morning”), *yạrïn (“morning, tomorrow”)
sun

Declension

Declension of *kün

	Singular ³⁾
Nominative	*kün
Accusative	künnü, künnüg ¹⁾
Genitive	*künnüŋ
Dative	*künke
Locative	*künte
Ablative	*künten
Instrumental ²⁾	*künün
Equative ²⁾	*künče

¹⁾ Found in early Proto-Turkic.
²⁾ The original instrumental and equative cases have fallen into disuse in many Turkic languages.
³⁾ Plurality is disputed in Proto-Turkic. See also the notes on the Proto-Turkic/Locative-ablative case and plurality page in Wikibooks.

Derived terms

*kün-eĺ

Descendants

Oghur:
- Volga Bulgar: كُوَان‎ (kön, “day”)
  - Chuvash: кун (kun, “day”)
- Danube Bulgar: χων (kon, “day”)

Arghu:
- Khalaj:
Karluk:
- Karakhanid: کون‎ (kün)
  - Chagatai: کون‎ (kün)
    - Uyghur: كۈن‎ (kün)
    - Uzbek: kun
Oghuz:
- Old Anatolian Turkish:
  - Azerbaijani: gün
  - Ottoman Turkish: گون‎ (gün)
    - Turkish: gün (“day”)
    - Gagauz: gün
- Turkmen: gün
- Salar:
Kipchak: کون‎ (kün)
- North Kipchak:
  - Tatar: көн (kön)
  - Bashkir: көн (kön)
- West Kipchak:
  - Crimean Tatar: кунь (kün)
  - Karachay-Balkar: кюн (kün)
  - Kumyk: гюн (gün)
  - Karaim: kiuń
- South Kipchak:
  - Caspian:
    - Kazakh: күн (kün)
    - Karakalpak: күн (ku'n)
    - Nogai: куьн (kün)
  - Kyrgyz-Kipchak:
    - Kyrgyz: күн (kün)
    - Southern Altai: кӱн (kün)
Siberian:
- Old Turkic: 𐰚𐰇𐰤‎‎ (kün²‎ /kün/)
- North Siberian:
  - Dolgan: күн (kün)
  - Yakut: күн (kün)
- South Siberian:
  - Sayan:
    - Tuvan: хүн (xün)
    - Tofa:
  - Yenisei:
    - Khakas: кӱн (kün)
    - Shor:
    - Western Yugur:
→? Proto-Tocharian: *kaun
- Tocharian A: koṃ
- Tocharian B: kauṃ