Reconstruction:Proto-Turkic/ï

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

Noun

*ï

vegetation, plant, bush, tree

Derived terms

*ïgač (“tree”) (perhaps)

Descendants

Medieval
- Karakhanid: يٖى‎ (yī), يٖى يِغاجْ‎ (yī yïɣač) (collective)
- Old Turkic
  - Orkhon: 𐰃‎ (ï)
  - Old Uyghur: ՚y (ï), ՚y ՚yγ՚č (ï ïɣač) (collective)

References

Clauson, Gerard (1972), “ı:”, in An Etymological Dictionary of pre-thirteenth-century Turkish, Oxford: Clarendon Press, page 1
Starostin, Sergei; Dybo, Anna; Mudrak, Oleg (2003), “*ɨ, *ɨ-(ń)gač”, in Etymological dictionary of the Altaic languages (Handbuch der Orientalistik; VIII.8), Leiden, New York, Köln: E.J. Brill