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Reconstruction:Proto-Turkic/borsuk

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 reconstructions

  • *borsmuk

Reconstruction

Reflexes of /-m-/ in Siberian languages may be due to the nasal in the suffix.

Noun

*borsuk

  1. badger

Declension

Descendants

  • Hungarian: borz
  • Oghur:
    • Chuvash: пурӑш (purăš)
  • Common Turkic: *borsuk, *borsmuk

References

  1. al-Kashgarî, Mahmud (1072–1074) Besim Atalay, transl., Divanü Lûgat-it-Türk Tercümesi [Translation of the “Compendium of the languages of the Turks] (Türk Dil Kurumu Yayınları; 521) (in Turkish), 1985 edition, volume III, Ankara: Türk Tarih Kurmu Basımevi, published 1939–1943, page 417
  • Clauson, Gerard (1972) “”, in An Etymological Dictionary of pre-thirteenth-century Turkish, Oxford: Clarendon Press, page 369
  • Doerfer, Gerhard (1965) Türkische und mongolische Elemente im Neupersischen [Turkic and Mongolian Elements in New Persian] (Akademie der Wissenschaften und der Literatur: Veröffentlichungen der Orientalischen Kommission; 19) (in German), volume II, Wiesbaden: Franz Steiner Verlag, page 284
  • Starostin, Sergei, Dybo, Anna, Mudrak, Oleg (2003) “*borsuk, *borsmuk”, in Etymological dictionary of the Altaic languages (Handbuch der Orientalistik; VIII.8), Leiden, New York, Köln: E.J. Brill
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