Reconstruction:Proto-Turkic/-gučï

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

preceding vowel
A / Ï / O / U	E / I / Ö / Ü
*-gučï	*-güči

Etymology

From Proto-Turkic *-gü +‎ *-či. Comparable to Proto-Mongolic *-xecin.

Suffix

*-gučï

1. Forms professions from verbs.

   ‎*ay- (“to speak”) + ‎*-gučï → ‎*aygučï (“speaker”)

Derived terms

Category Proto-Turkic terms suffixed with *-gučï not found

Descendants

• Common Turkic:

• Oghuz:
  • Old Anatolian Turkish:
    • Azerbaijani: -ici, -ıcı, -ucu, -ücü, -yici, -yıcı, -yucu, -yücü
    • Ottoman Turkish:
      • Turkish: -ici, -ıcı, -ucu, -ücü, -yici, -yıcı, -yucu, -yücü, -giç, -gıç, -guç, -güç
  • Salar: -güci, -ğuci

References

• Erdal, Marcel (1991) Old Turkic Word Formation‎^[1], volume I, Otto Harrassowitz, →ISBN, page 110
• Clauson, Gerard (1972) “”, in An Etymological Dictionary of pre-thirteenth-century Turkish, Oxford: Clarendon Press, page xliii
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “+çI”, in Nişanyan Sözlük