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Reconstruction:Proto-Turkic/yạŕ-
Proto-Turkic
Etymology
According to the logic of Turkic per-y, Mongolic per-j, Tungusic per-ń, compared to Proto-Mongolic *jiru- (“to scratch, draw, write”) and Proto-Tungusic *ńiru- (“to draw, write”).
See Proto-Turkic *yüm-, *yum- (“to close (eyes, mouth)”), Proto-Mongolic *jimü-yi- (“to close (eyes, mouth)”) and Proto-Tungusic *ńim- (“to close (eyes)”) which can be a proof of the logic.
The stem does not exist in Siberian Turkic languages, which use the Mongolic *jiru- (“to scratch, draw, write”) instead, likewise a borrowing from yạŕ-.
Verb
*yạŕ-
- to write
- Synonym: *biti-
Descendants
- Oghur:
- Chuvash: ҫыр (śyr)
- → Proto-Mordvinic:
- Moksha: сёрма (sjorma)
- Erzya: сёрма (sjorma)
- →? Hungarian: ír
- Common Turkic: *yaz-
- Arghu:
- Khalaj: yazmaq
- Oghuz:
- Old Anatolian Turkish:
- Azerbaijani: yazmaq
- Ottoman Turkish: یازمق
- Turkish: yazmak
- Turkmen: ýazmak
- Old Anatolian Turkish:
- Karluk:
- Karakhanid: یازماق
- Chagatai: یازماق
- Uzbek: yozmoq
- Uyghur: يازماق (yazmaq)
- Chagatai: یازماق
- Karakhanid: یازماق
- Kipchak:
- North Kipchak
- Tatar: язу (yazu)
- Bashkir: яҙыу (yaðıw)
- West Kipchak:
- Karachay-Balkar: джазыу (cazıu)
- Crimean Tatar: yazmaq
- Kumyk: язмакъ (yazmaq)
- South Kipchak:
- Kazakh: жазу (jazu)
- Karakalpak: жазыў
- Nogai: язув (yazuv)
- East Kipchak:
- Kyrgyz: жазуу (jazuu)
- Southern Altai: јас- (ǰas-, “to hit chain, to heal”)
- North Kipchak
References
- Clauson, Gerard (1972) An Etymological Dictionary of pre-thirteenth-century Turkish, Oxford: Clarendon Press, page 984
- Róna-Tas, András; Berta, Árpád; Károly, László (2011) West Old Turkic: Turkic Loanwords in Hungarian (Turcologica; 84), Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, page 459-464
- Räsänen, Martti (1969) Versuch eines etymologischen Wörterbuchs der Türksprachen (in German), Helsinki: Suomalais-ugrilainen seura, page 193
- Sevortjan, E. V.; Levitskaja, L. S. (1989) Etimologičeskij slovarʹ tjurkskix jazykov [Etymological Dictionary of Turkic Languages] (in Russian), volume 4, Moscow: Nauka, page 70-71
- Starostin, Sergei; Dybo, Anna; Mudrak, Oleg (2003), “*jạŕ-”, in Etymological dictionary of the Altaic languages (Handbuch der Orientalistik; VIII.8), Leiden, New York, Köln: E.J. Brill