Reconstruction:Proto-Turkic/u-

This Proto-Turkic entry contains reconstructed words 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

Verb

*u-

to be able, be capable

Derived terms

*u-gan (present participle)
- Karakhanid: اُغَنْ‎ (uɣan, “having power over all things”)
- Khorezmian Turkic: [script needed] (uɣan)
- Mamluk-Kipchak: [script needed] (uɣan)
- Chagatai: [script needed] (uqan), [script needed] (uɣan)
  - → Turkish: oğan (learned borrowing, from one of the languages above)
*u-ma- (negation)
- Old Turkic
  - Orkhon: 𐰆𐰢𐰀‎ (uma-)
  - Old Uyghur: ʾwmʾ (uma-)
- Oghuz
  - Turkish: -(y)ama- (< *-(y)u uma-)

Descendants

Old Turkic
- Orkhon: 𐰆‎ (u-)
- Old Uyghur: ʾw (u-)
Siberian
- Yakut: уй (uy)

References

Clauson, Gerard (1972), “u-”, in An Etymological Dictionary of pre-thirteenth-century Turkish, Oxford: Clarendon Press, page 2
Starostin, Sergei; Dybo, Anna; Mudrak, Oleg (2003), “*ŋūja”, in Etymological dictionary of the Altaic languages (Handbuch der Orientalistik; VIII.8), Leiden, New York, Köln: E.J. Brill