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Reconstruction:Proto-Turkic/ōk
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Proto-Turkic
Alternative forms
- *ūk
Etymology
This stem has often been connected with *ok (“arrow”).[1]
Noun
*ōk
- kin, tribe
Declension
Declension of *ōk
| Singular 3) | |
|---|---|
| Nominative | *ōk |
| Accusative | *ōknu, *ōknug 1) |
| Genitive | *ōknuŋ |
| Dative | *ōkka |
| Locative | *ōkda |
| Ablative | *ōkdan |
| Instrumental 2) | *ōkun |
| Equative 2) | *ōkča |
1) Found in early Proto-Turkic.
2) The original instrumental and equative cases have fallen into disuse in many Turkic languages.
3) Plurality is disputed in Proto-Turkic. See also the notes on the Proto-Turkic/Locative-ablative case and plurality page in Wikibooks.
2) The original instrumental and equative cases have fallen into disuse in many Turkic languages.
3) Plurality is disputed in Proto-Turkic. See also the notes on the Proto-Turkic/Locative-ablative case and plurality page in Wikibooks.
Derived terms
- >? Proto-Turkic: *ōkuŕ
Descendants
- Oghur
- Chuvash: йӑх (jăh)
- Common Turkic:
- Oghuz:
- >? Turkish: ok atmak (dial.)
- Karluk:
- Karakhanid: اُوقْ (ōq, “share of inheritance”)
- Kypchak:
- Kypchak-Nogai:
- Kazakh: [script needed] (ŭq) (dialectal)
- Kypchak-Nogai:
- Siberian:
- South Siberian:
- Old Turkic: 𐰸 (uq ~ oq, “kin, tribe”)
- Sayan:
- Tuvan: ук (uk)
- South Siberian:
References
- Starostin, Sergei; Dybo, Anna; Mudrak, Oleg (2003), “*uk”, in Etymological dictionary of the Altaic languages (Handbuch der Orientalistik; VIII.8), Leiden, New York, Köln: E.J. Brill, citing VEWT 511, ЭСТЯ 1, 582-583, Егоров 76. Starostin thought the connection with "arrow" was made "erroneously".
- Clauson, Gerard (1972), “O:k "a share of an inheritance"”, in An Etymological Dictionary of pre-thirteenth-century Turkish, Oxford: Clarendon Press, page 76