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Reconstruction:Proto-Turkic/ōk

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

Alternative forms

Etymology

This stem has often been connected with *ok (“arrow”).[1]

Noun

*ōk

  1. kin, tribe
    Synonym: *bod

Declension
Declension of *ōk
Singular 3)
Nominative *ōk
Accusative *ōknï, *ōkug 4), *ōknïg 1)
Genitive *ōknïŋ
Dative *ōkka
Locative *ōkda
Ablative *ōkdan
Allative *ōkgaru
Instrumental 2) *ōkun
Equative 2) *ōkča
Similative 2) *ōklayu
Comitative 2) *ōklugu
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.

Derived terms
  • >? Proto-Turkic: *ōkuŕ

Descendants
  • Oghur
  • Common Turkic:
  • Oghuz:
    • >? Turkish: ok atmak (dial.)
  • Karluk:
    • Karakhanid: اُوقْ (ōq, “share of inheritance”)
  • Kypchak:
    • Kypchak-Nogai:
      • Kazakh: [script needed] (ŭq) (dialectal)
  • Siberian:
    • South Siberian:
      • Old Turkic: 𐰸 (uq ~ oq, “kin, tribe”)
      • Sayan:

References
  1. Starostin, Sergei, Dybo, Anna, Mudrak, Oleg (2003) “*uk”, in Etymological dictionary of the Altaic languages (Handbuch der Orientalistik; VIII.8)‎, Leiden, New York, Köln: E.J. Brill, citing VEWT 511, ЭСТЯ 1, 582-583, Егоров 76. Starostin thought the connection with "arrow" was made "erroneously".
  • Clauson, Gerard (1972) “O:k "a share of an inheritance"”, in An Etymological Dictionary of pre-thirteenth-century Turkish, Oxford: Clarendon Press, page 76
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