< Reconstruction:Proto-Turkic
Reconstruction:Proto-Turkic/-melig
Proto-Turkic
Etymology
From + *-me + *-lig (see more at Turkish -meli). However, the existence of the Chuvash cognate, may precede the Turkish derivation from -me + -li[1] and it must happens early in the Proto-Turkic period.
Suffix
*-melig
- Suffix creating necessitative.
- *seb- (“to love”) + -melig → *sebmelig (“(s/he) should love”)
Descendants
- Oghur:
- Chuvash: -малла (-malla), -мелле (-melle)
- Common Turkic:
- Oghuz:
- Old Anatolian Turkish: [Term?]
- Azerbaijani: -məli, -malı
- Ottoman Turkish: [Term?]
- Turkish: -meli, -malı
- Turkmen: -meli, -maly
- Old Anatolian Turkish: [Term?]
- Kipchak:
- South Kipchak:
- Kazakh: -мелі (-meli), -пелі (-peli), -белі (-beli) (not as necessitative suffix, but as verbal-adjective)
- South Kipchak:
References
- G. L. Lewis (1967) Turkish Grammar, Oxford University Press, →ISBN