< Reconstruction:Proto-Turkic
Reconstruction:Proto-Turkic/kǖč
Proto-Turkic
Etymology
Akin to Proto-Mongolic *kücin (“power, strength”) which may be a Turkic borrowing.
Noun
*kǖč (Common Turkic)
- force, strength, power
Declension
Declension of *kǖč (Common Turkic)
singular | plural2) | |
---|---|---|
nominative | *kǖč | *kǖčler |
accusative | ||
genitive | *kǖčniŋ | *kǖčlerniŋ |
dative | *kǖčke | *kǖčlerke |
locative | *kǖčte | *kǖčlerde |
ablative | *kǖčten | *kǖčlerden |
instrumental1) | *kǖčlerin | |
equative1) | *kǖčče | *kǖčlerče |
1)The original instrumental and equative cases have fallen into disuse in many Common Turkic languages.
2)This plural suffix is used only on Common Turkic, and not in Oghur. See also the notes on the Proto-Turkic/Locative-ablative case and plurality page on Wikibooks.
2)This plural suffix is used only on Common Turkic, and not in Oghur. See also the notes on the Proto-Turkic/Locative-ablative case and plurality page on Wikibooks.
Derived terms
- *kǖč-e- (“to compel”)
- *kǖč-le- (“to oppress, use violence”)
- *kǖčgey (“violent, difficult”)
- *kǖč-lig (“powerful”)
- *kǖč-siŕ (“powerless”)
- *kǖč-lik (“strength”)
Descendants
- Oghuz
- Old Anatolian Turkish:
- Azerbaijani: güc
- Ottoman Turkish: گوچ (güç)
- Gagauz: güç
- Turkish: güç
- Turkmen: güýç
- Salar: küš
- Old Anatolian Turkish:
- Karluk
- Karakhanid: كُوجْ (kǖč)
- Khorezmian Turkic: كوچ (küč)
- Chagatai: كوچ (küç)
- Uyghur: كۈچ (küch)
- Uzbek: kuch, куч (kuch)
- → Arabic: كُوج (kūj)
- → Persian: کوچ (kuč)
- Chagatai: كوچ (küç)
- Kipchak: كوچ (küč)
- North Kipchak
- Bashkir: көс (kös)
- Tatar: көч (köç)
- West Kipchak
- Crimean Tatar: küç
- Karachay-Balkar: кюч (küç)
- Karaim: küč
- Kumyk: гюч (güç)
- Central Kipchak
- Karakalpak: күш / kuʻsh
- Kazakh: күш (küş)
- Nogai: куьш (küş)
- East Kipchak
- Kyrgyz: күч (küç)
- Southern Altai: кӱч (küč)
- North Kipchak
- Siberian
- Old Turkic: 𐰚𐰇𐰲 (küč /küč/)
- Old Uyghur: [script needed] (kwč /küč/)
- Northern Siberian
- Dolgan: күүс (küüs)
- Yakut: күүс (küüs)
- Southern Siberian
- Yenisei
- Khakas: кӱс (küs)
- Shor: кӱш (küš)
- Western Yugur: [script needed] (kuš)
- Sayan
- Tuvan: күш (küş)
- Tofa: күш (küš)
- Yenisei
- Northern Siberian
- Old Uyghur: [script needed] (kwč /küč/)
- Old Turkic: 𐰚𐰇𐰲 (küč /küč/)
- → Proto-Mongolic: *kücin (presumably)
- Mangghuer: kuji
- Mongolian: хүч (xüč)
References
- Starostin, Sergei; Dybo, Anna; Mudrak, Oleg (2003), “*kǖč”, in Etymological dictionary of the Altaic languages (Handbuch der Orientalistik; VIII.8), Leiden, New York, Köln: E.J. Brill
- Clauson, Gerard (1972), “kü:ç”, in An Etymological Dictionary of pre-thirteenth-century Turkish, Oxford: Clarendon Press, page 693