Reconstruction:Proto-Turkic/öküŕ

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

Etymology

Argued to be borrowed from Proto-Tocharian *wəkʷsó (“draft-ox”)[1][2], yet this has been disputed[3].

Noun

*öküŕ

ox, bull

Descendants

Bulghar: *ökür[3]
- Chuvash: вӑкӑр (văkăr)
- → Hungarian: ökör (“ox”)
Karakhanid: اُكُوزْ‎ (ökǖz)
Karluk:
- Uzbek: ho'kiz
- Uyghur: ۆكۈز‎ (öküz)
Kipchak:
- West Kipchak:
  - Karaim: oküz, ögüz
  - Karachay-Balkar: ёгюз (ögüz)
  - Kumyk: ёгюз (ögüz)
- North Kipchak:
  - Bashkir: үгеҙ (ügeð)
  - Tatar: үгез (ügez)
- South Kipchak:
  - Karakalpak: ögiz
  - Kazakh: өгіз (ögiz)
  - Kyrgyz: өгүз (ögüz)
  - Nogai: оьгиз (ögiz)
Oghuz:
- West Oghuz:
  - Azerbaijani: öküz
  - Gagauz: yöküz
  - Ottoman Turkish: اۊكۏز‎ (öküz)
    - Turkish: öküz
- East Oghuz:
  - Turkmen: ökiz, öküz
Siberian
- Western Yugur: [script needed] (kus)
- Dolgan: оғус (ogus)
- Yakut: оҕус (oğus)
Old Turkic: 𐰈𐰛𐰈𐰕‎ (öküz)
→ Mongolic: *hükär (“ox”)
- Buryat: үхэр (üxer, “cattle”)
- Daur: xukur
- Middle Mongolian: [script needed] (hüker)
  - Mongolian: үхэр (üher, “cattle”)
- → Even: хөкэн (höken), хөкөн (hökön, “cow”)
- → Evenki: [script needed] (uxur), хукур (hukur, “cow”)

References

Güntert, Anders H; Festschrift Fr. Panzer 10
Clauson, Gerard (1972), “öküz”, in An Etymological Dictionary of pre-thirteenth-century Turkish, Oxford: Clarendon Press, page 120
Doerfer, Gerhard (1963) Türkische und mongolische Elemente im Neupersischen [Turkic and Mongolian Elements in New Persian] (Akademie der Wissenschaften und der Literatur: Veröffentlichungen der Orientalischen Kommission; 16) (in German), volume 1, Wiesbaden: Franz Steiner Verlag, page 539

[Güntert-1] Güntert, Anders H; Festschrift Fr. Panzer 10

[2] Clauson, Gerard (1972), “öküz”, in An Etymological Dictionary of pre-thirteenth-century Turkish, Oxford: Clarendon Press, page 120

[TMN-3] Doerfer, Gerhard (1963) Türkische und mongolische Elemente im Neupersischen [Turkic and Mongolian Elements in New Persian] (Akademie der Wissenschaften und der Literatur: Veröffentlichungen der Orientalischen Kommission; 16) (in German), volume 1, Wiesbaden: Franz Steiner Verlag, page 539