Reconstruction:Proto-Turkic/čekürtke

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

Noun

*čekürtke

(Common Turkic) grasshopper, locust

Declension

Declension of *čekürtke (Common Turkic)

	singular	plural²⁾
nominative	*čekürtke	*čekürtkeler
accusative
genitive	*čekürtkeniŋ	*čekürtkelerniŋ
dative	*čekürtkeke	*čekürtkelerke
locative	*čekürtkede	*čekürtkelerde
ablative	*čekürtkeden	*čekürtkelerden
instrumental¹⁾		*čekürtkelerin
equative¹⁾	*čekürtkeče	*čekürtkelerče

¹⁾The original instrumental and equative cases have fallen into disuse in many Common Turkic languages.
²⁾This plural suffix is used only on Common Turkic, and not in Oghur. See also the notes on the Proto-Turkic/Locative-ablative case and plurality page on Wikibooks.

Descendants

Oghuz:
- Old Anatolian Turkish:
  - Azerbaijani: çəyirtkə
  - Ottoman Turkish: چكركه‎‎ (çekirge)
    - Turkish: çekirge
  - Gagauz: çekirgä
- East Oghuz:
  - Turkmen: çekirtge
Karluk
- Uzbek: chigirtka
- Uyghur: چېكەتكە‎ (chëketke)
Kipchak
- West Kipchak
  - Crimean Tatar: sekirge, çegertki
  - Karachay-Balkar: сенгирчке (señirçke)
  - Karaim: [script needed] (çegirtke)
- North Kipchak
  - Bashkir: сиңерткә (siŋertkä)
  - Tatar: чикерткә (çikertkä)
- South Kipchak
  - Kazakh: шегіртке (şegırtke)
  - Nogai: [script needed] (şegertki)
- East Kipchak
  - Kyrgyz: чегиртке (çegirtke)
  - Southern Altai: чегертки (čegertki)
Siberian
- North Siberian:
  - Yakut: сахсырҕа (saxsırğa, “fly”)
  - Dolgan: һаксырга (“fly”)
- Sayan
  - Tuvan: шерги (şergi)

References

Clauson, Gerard (1972) An Etymological Dictionary of pre-thirteenth-century Turkish, Oxford: Clarendon Press, page 416-417
Räsänen, Martti (1969) Versuch eines etymologischen Wörterbuchs der Türksprachen (in German), Helsinki: Suomalais-ugrilainen seura, page 103
Starostin, Sergei; Dybo, Anna; Mudrak, Oleg (2003), “*čekü-rtke”, in Etymological dictionary of the Altaic languages (Handbuch der Orientalistik; VIII.8), Leiden, New York, Köln: E.J. Brill
Tenišev E. R., editor (1984–2006) Sravnitelʹno-istoričeskaja grammatika tjurkskix jazykov: [Comparative Historical Grammar of Turkic Languages:] (in Russian), Moscow: Nauka, page 187