Reconstruction:Proto-Turkic/kïl

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

*kïl

1. a hair

Declension

Declension of *kïl

	Singular 3)
Nominative	*kïl
Accusative	*kïlnï, *kïlïg 4), *kïlnïg 1)
Genitive	*kïlnïŋ
Dative	*kïlka
Locative	*kïlta
Ablative	*kïltan
Allative	*kïlgaru
Instrumental 2)	*kïlïn
Equative 2)	*kïlča
Similative 2)	*kïllayu
Comitative 2)	*kïllïgu

¹⁾ Possibly in Pre-Proto-Turkic.
²⁾ The original instrumental, equative, similative & comitative cases have fallen into disuse in many modern 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.
⁴⁾ Found in the Old Turkic era.

Descendants

• Oghur:
  • ⇒ Chuvash: хӗлӗх (hĕlĕh)
• Common Turkic: *kïl

• Arghu:
  • Khalaj: qıl
• Oghuz:
  • Old Anatolian Turkish:
    • Ottoman Turkish: قیل (qıl)
      • Gagauz: kıl
      • Turkish: kıl
      • → Armenian: խըլ (xəl)
    • Azerbaijani: qıl
  • Turkmen: gyl
• Karluk:
  • Uyghur: قىل (qil)
  • Uzbek: qil
• Kipchak:
  • North Kipchak:
    • Bashkir: ҡыл (qıl)
    • Tatar: кыл (qıl)
  • East Kipchak:
    • Kyrgyz: кыл (kıl)
    • Southern Altai: кыл (kïl)
  • South Kipchak:
    • Karakalpak: қыл
    • Kazakh: қыл (qyl)
    • Nogai: кыл (kıl)
  • West Kipchak:
    • Crimean Tatar: qıl
    • Kumyk: къыл (qıl)
    • Karachay-Balkar: къыл (qıl)
• Siberian:
  • North Siberian:
    • Dolgan: кыл (“sealine”)
    • Yakut: кыл (kıl)
  • South Siberian:
    • Tuvan: хыл (xıl)
    • Shor: хыл
    • Khakas: хыл (xıl)

References

• Clauson, Gerard (1972) “*kïl”, in An Etymological Dictionary of pre-thirteenth-century Turkish, Oxford: Clarendon Press, page 614
• Doerfer, Gerhard (1967) Türkische und mongolische Elemente im Neupersischen [Turkic and Mongolian Elements in New Persian] (Akademie der Wissenschaften und der Literatur: Veröffentlichungen der Orientalischen Kommission; 20)‎^[1] (in German), volume III, Wiesbaden: Franz Steiner Verlag, pages 274-275
• Levitskaja, L. S., Dybo, A. V., Rassadin, V. I. (2000) Etimologičeskij slovarʹ tjurkskix jazykov [Etymological Dictionary of Turkic Languages] (in Russian), volume 6, Moscow: Indrik, pages 204-205
• Räsänen, Martti (1969) Versuch eines etymologischen Wörterbuchs der Türksprachen (in German), Helsinki: Suomalais-ugrilainen seura, page 262
• Starostin, Sergei, Dybo, Anna, Mudrak, Oleg (2003) “*kɨl(k)”, 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), “*kylk”, in Sravnitelʹno-istoričeskaja grammatika tjurkskix jazykov: [Comparative Historical Grammar of Turkic Languages:] (in Russian), Moscow: Nauka, page 196