Reconstruction:Proto-Turkic/sü
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Proto-Turkic[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Despite usually being considered native, there have also been suggestions for a borrowing from Middle Chinese 戍 (MC syuH, “frontier guards”).[1]
Noun[edit]
*sü
Declension[edit]
Declension of *sü
Singular 3) | |
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Nominative | *sü |
Accusative | *süni, *süg 4), *sünig 1) |
Genitive | *süniŋ |
Dative | *süke |
Locative | *süde |
Ablative | *süden |
Allative | *sügerü |
Instrumental 2) | *sün |
Equative 2) | *süče |
Similative 2) | *süleyü |
Comitative 2) | *sülügü |
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.
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.
Derived terms[edit]
- *sü-le- (“to have an expedition”)
Descendants[edit]
- Common Turkic:
- Oghuz:
- Old Anatolian Turkish:
- Ottoman Turkish: [script needed] (su, sü)
- Turkish: su uyur, düşman uyumaz (“the army sleeps, but the enemy doesn't”)
- Ottoman Turkish: [script needed] (su, sü)
- Old Anatolian Turkish:
- Karluk:
- Karakhanid: [script needed] (sü)
- Siberian:
- Old Turkic: [script needed] (sü)
- Old Uyghur: [script needed] (sü)
- Old Turkic: [script needed] (sü)
References[edit]
- ^ Dybo, A. V. (2007) Lingvističeskije kontakty rannix tjurkov: leksičeskij fond, pratjurkskij period [Language contacts of early Turks. The Proto-Turkic period][1] (in Russian), Moscow: Oriental Literature, Russian Academy of Sciences, page 8
- Clauson, Gerard (1972) “”, in An Etymological Dictionary of pre-thirteenth-century Turkish, Oxford: Clarendon Press, page 781
- Räsänen, Martti (1969) Versuch eines etymologischen Wörterbuchs der Türksprachen (in German), Helsinki: Suomalais-ugrilainen seura, page 434