Reconstruction:Proto-Turkic/küre-

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

Etymology

Compared to Proto-Mongolic *kura- (“to gather, collect”), Proto-Tungusic *xeru- (“to rake up; to sweep”) by EDAL.

Verb

*küre-

to rake

Descendants

Oghur:
- ⇒ Chuvash: кĕреҫе (kĕreś̬e, “spade, shovel”)
Common Turkic:

Arghu:
- ⇒ Khalaj: kirgək
Oghuz:
- Old Anatolian Turkish: [script needed] (kürümek)
  - Azerbaijani: kürümək
  - Ottoman Turkish: [script needed] (küremek)
    - Turkish: küremek, kürümek
    - Gagauz: kürümää
- ⇒ Turkmen: kürek
- ⇒ Salar: kürek
Karluk:
- Karakhanid: [script needed] (kürimek)
  - Chagatai:
    - Uzbek: ku’remek
    - Uyghur: كۈرەمەك‎ (küremek, “to shovel”), كۈرەك‎ (kürek, “shovel”)
Kipchak:
- North Kipchak:
  - Bashkir: көрәү (köräw)
  - Tatar: [script needed] (köre-)
- West Kipchak:
  - ⇒ Crimean Tatar: kürek
  - Kumyk: кюремек (küremek)
  - Karachay-Balkar: [script needed] (küre-)
- South Kipchak:
  - Caspian:
    - Karakalpak: гүреў
    - Kazakh: күреу (küreu)
    - Nogai: куьрев (kürev)
  - Kyrgyz-Kipchak:
    - Kyrgyz: күрөө (küröö)
    - Southern Altai: кӱреер (küreer)
Siberian:
- North Siberian:
  - Dolgan: [script needed] (kürt-)
  - Yakut: күрт (kürt)
- South Siberian:
  - Sayan:
    - ⇒ Tuvan: [script needed] (xürüyek)
    - ⇒ Tofa: [script needed] (xürüj̃ek)
  - Yenisei:
    - Khakas: [script needed] (küre-)

References

Starostin, Sergei; Dybo, Anna; Mudrak, Oleg (2003), “*küre-”, in Etymological dictionary of the Altaic languages (Handbuch der Orientalistik; VIII.8), Leiden, New York, Köln: E.J. Brill