Reconstruction:Proto-Turkic/siarïg

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Reconstruction:Proto-Turkic/siarïg

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

Alternative reconstructions

• *siārïg

Etymology

Derivation from Proto-Turkic *siaŕ(ï)- (“to become white, yellow”)[1] +‎ *-g. Khalaj and Turkmen forms point to -/ā/-.

Related to Proto-Mongolic *sïra (“yellow”) (Mongolian шар (šar, “yellow”)), Proto-Japonic *siro (“white”) and perhaps Proto-Tungusic *sēru (“rainbow”). (Can this⁽⁺⁾ etymology be sourced?)

Adjective

*siarïg

1. yellow, white

Derived terms

• *siarïglïg
• *siarïglïk
• *siargar-

Descendants

• →? Proto-Mongolic: *sïra
• Oghur:
  • Chuvash: шурӑ (šură)
  • → Hungarian: sárga
  • → Bulgarian: шарен (šaren)
• Common Turkic:

• Arghu:
  • Khalaj: sâaruğ
• Oghuz:
  • Old Anatolian Turkish:
    • Azerbaijani: sarı
    • Ottoman Turkish: صاری‎ (sarı)
      • Gagauz: sarı
      • Turkish: sarı
  • Salar: sarı
  • Turkmen: sāry
• Karluk:
  • Karakhanid: سَرِغْ‎ (sarïɣ)
    • Khorezmian Turkic: [script needed] (ṣarïɣ)
      • Chagatai: [script needed] (sarïɣ), [script needed] (sarïq)
        • Uzbek: sariq
        • Uyghur: سېرىق‎ (sëriq)
• Kipchak:
  • Kipchak: [script needed] (sarï)
  • Mamluk-Kipchak: [Arabic needed] (ṣārū), [Arabic needed] (ṣārï̄)
  • West Kipchak:
    • Crimean Tatar: sarı
    • Karachay-Balkar: сары (sarı)
    • Kumyk: сари (sari)
    • Karaim: [script needed] (sarı)
  • North Kipchak:
    • Bashkir: һары (harı)
    • Tatar: сары (sarı)
      • → Chuvash: сарӑ (sară)
  • South Kipchak:
    • Caspian:
      • Kazakh: сары (sary)
      • Karakalpak: sarı
      • Nogai: сары (sarı)
    • Kyrgyz-Kipchak:
      • Kyrgyz: сары (sarı)
      • Southern Altai: сары (sarï)
• Siberian:
  • Old Turkic:
    • Old Turkic: 𐰽𐰺𐰃𐰍‎‎ (sarïɣ)
    • Old Uyghur: sʾryγ (sarïɣ)
  • North Siberian:
    • Yakut: араҕас (arağas), арыы (arıı, “butter”)
    • Dolgan: арыы (“butter”)
  • South Siberian:
    • Yenisei Turkic:
      • Chulym: сарығ (sarïɣ)
      • Khakas: сарығ (sarığ)
      • Shor: сарыг
    • Sayan Turkic:
      • Tofa: сарығ
      • Tuvan: сарыг (sarıg)
      • Western Yugur: [script needed] (sarïɣ)

See also

Colors in Proto-Turkic · *bodoglar, *bodogsāyïn (layout · text)

*āk, *ürüŋ	*boŕ, *sūr, *kuba, *čāl, *oń	*kara
*kïŕïl; *āl	*koŋur, *yạgïŕ	*siarïg, *yẹgren
	*yāĺïl
	*kȫk
	*(y)ip-

Further reading

• Starostin, Sergei; Dybo, Anna; Mudrak, Oleg (2003), “*si̯ā̀jri”, in Etymological dictionary of the Altaic languages (Handbuch der Orientalistik; VIII.8), Leiden, New York, Köln: E.J. Brill
• Clauson, Gerard (1972), “sarığ”, in An Etymological Dictionary of pre-thirteenth-century Turkish, Oxford: Clarendon Press, page 848

References

1. Tekin, Talât. “Once More Zetacism and Sigmatism.” Central Asiatic Journal, vol. 23, no. 1/2, Harrassowitz Verlag, 1979, page 129.