Reconstruction:Proto-Turkic/köp-

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

Etymology

Akin to Proto-Mongolic *köxe- (“to swell”), also Proto-Tungusic *xopu-n (“foam”). (Can this⁽⁺⁾ etymology be sourced?)

Verb

*köp-

1. (intransitive) to swell

Derived terms

• *köp-ük (“foam”)
• *köp-ür- (“to foam”)

Descendants

• Oghur:
  • ⇒ Chuvash: кăпăк (kăpăk)
• Common Turkic:

• Oghuz:
  • Old Anatolian Turkish:
    • Azerbaijani: köpmək
    • Ottoman Turkish: [script needed] (köpmek)
      • Turkish: köpmek (dialect)
  • Turkmen: köpmek
• Karluk:
  • ⇒ Karakhanid: [script needed] (köpürmek)
    • Uzbek: kopmoq (dialect)
    • Uyghur: [script needed] (köpmek)
• Kipchak:
  • North Kipchak:
    • Bashkir: [script needed] (küp-)
    • Tatar: [script needed] (küp-)
  • West Kipchak:
    • Crimean Tatar:
    • Kumyk: [script needed] (göp-)
    • Karachay-Balkar: [script needed] (köp-)
  • South Kipchak:
    • Caspian:
      • Karakalpak: [script needed] (köp-)
      • ⇒ Kazakh: көбік (köbık)
      • Nogai: [script needed] (köp-)
    • Kyrgyz-Kipchak:
      • Kyrgyz: көбүү (köbüü)
      • Southern Altai: кӧп- (köp-)
• Siberian:
  • Old Uyghur: [script needed] (köpük)
  • North Siberian:
    • Yakut: [script needed] (köp-)
    • Dolgan: [script needed] (köbüy-)
  • South Siberian:
    • Sayan Turkic:
      • ⇒ Tuvan: [script needed] (kö'vük)
      • ⇒ Tofa: [script needed] (kö'pük)
    • Yenisei Turkic:
      • Khakas: [script needed] (köp-)

References

• Starostin, Sergei, Dybo, Anna, Mudrak, Oleg (2003) “*köp-”, in Etymological dictionary of the Altaic languages (Handbuch der Orientalistik; VIII.8), Leiden, New York, Köln: E.J. Brill