Reconstruction:Proto-Turkic/kurč
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Proto-Turkic[edit]
Reconstruction notes[edit]
The reason of semantical change in most of Turkic languages from "hard" to "steel" is probably to indicate the hardness of steel.
Etymology[edit]
Nugteren compares the word to Proto-Mongolic *kurca (“sharp”), whence also Mongolian хурц (xurc, “sharp”).
Adjective[edit]
*kurč
Descendants[edit]
- →? Proto-Mongolic: *kurca
- Mongolian: хурц (xurc)
- Oghur:
- Chuvash: хурҫӑ (hurś̬ă, “steel”)
- Common Turkic:
References[edit]
- Starostin, Sergei, Dybo, Anna, Mudrak, Oleg (2003) “*kurč”, in Etymological dictionary of the Altaic languages (Handbuch der Orientalistik; VIII.8)[1], Leiden, New York, Köln: E.J. Brill