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Reconstruction:Proto-Turkic/ök

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

Postposition

*ök

  1. (Common Turkic) emphatic particle.
    ‎*ben (“I”) + ‎*ök → ‎*ben ök (“I, personally...”)

Usage notes
  1. Much like *-mi, it adheres to the vowel harmony of the word that comes before it.
    ‎*anča (“I”) + ‎*ök → ‎*anča ok (“he/she/it personally...”)
  2. In certain instances, if the word ends with a vowel, it may drop *O- turning it into a suffix *-k
    ‎*anča (“I”) + ‎*ök → ‎*ančak (“he/she/it personally...”)
  3. While the particle may not directly exist in the daughter languages except Old Turkic, it lives in a suffix form *-ek (“first person plural verbal suffix”) and in fossilized forms such as Turkish ancak (“but, except, however”).[1]

Derived terms

Descendants
  • Common Turkic:
  • Siberian:
    • Old Turkic: [script needed] (ok)
    • Old Uyghur: [script needed] (ok)

References
  1. Nişanyan, Sevan (2015-06-11) “ancak”, in Nişanyan Sözlük

Clauson, Gerard (1972) “ok”, in An Etymological Dictionary of pre-thirteenth-century Turkish, Oxford: Clarendon Press, page 76

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