Reconstruction:Proto-Turkic/kẹli

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

Similarity to Proto-Tungusic *xelńe (“mortar”), may have explains the early form of *kelńi, which is also preserved in Hungarian and Siberian Tatar. (?)

Noun

*kẹli

mortar

Declension

Declension of *kẹli

	Singular ³⁾
Nominative	*kẹli
Accusative	kẹlini, kẹlig ⁴⁾, *kẹlinig ¹⁾
Genitive	*kẹliniŋ
Dative	*kẹlike
Locative	*kẹlide
Ablative	*kẹliden
Allative	*kẹligerü
Instrumental ²⁾	*kẹlin
Equative ²⁾	*kẹliče
Similative ²⁾	*kẹlileyü
Comitative ²⁾	*kẹliligü

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.

Descendants

Oghur:
- Chuvash: килӗ (kilĕ)
  - → Hungarian: kölyű
Common Turkic:

Karluk:
- Uzbek: keli
Kipchak:
- North Kipchak:
  - Bashkir: киле (kile)
  - Tatar: киле (kile)
- West Kipchak:
  - Karachay-Balkar: кели (keli)
  - Kumyk: кели (keli)
- South Kipchak:
  - Kazakh: келi (keli)
Siberian:
- Siberian Tatar: кейле (keyle)
- North Siberian:
  - Dolgan: кэлии (kelii)
  - Yakut: кэлии (kelii)

References

Levitskaja, L. S., Dybo, A. V., Rassadin, V. I. (1997) Etimologičeskij slovarʹ tjurkskix jazykov [Etymological Dictionary of Turkic Languages] (in Russian), volume 5, Moscow: Jazyki russkoj kulʹtury, page 33
Starostin, Sergei, Dybo, Anna, Mudrak, Oleg (2003) “*kẹli”, in Etymological dictionary of the Altaic languages (Handbuch der Orientalistik; VIII.8)‎, Leiden, New York, Köln: E.J. Brill

This article is issued from Wiktionary. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.