Reconstruction:Proto-Turkic/kẹntü

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

*gẹntü

Pronoun

*kẹntü

self

Adjective

*kẹntü

self, own

Descendants

Khorezmian Turkic: [script needed] (kendü)
Mamluk-Kipchak: [script needed] (kendü)
Proto-Oghuz: *gendü
- West Oghuz:
  - Old Anatolian Turkish: كندو (gändü)
    - Azerbaijani: gəndi (dialectal)
    - Ottoman Turkish: كندو (kendü)
      - Turkish: kendi
      - Gagauz: kendi
Karluk:
- Karakhanid: كَنْدُو (kendǖ)
Siberian Turkic:
- Old Turkic: 𐰚𐰦𐰇 (kentü)
- Old Uyghur: k՚ntw (kentü)
- North Siberian:
  - Dolgan: гини (gini)
  - Yakut: кини (kini)

Derived terms

*kẹntü-m (“myself”)
- Kipchak: [script needed] (kendim)

References

Clauson, Gerard (1972) “kentü:”, in An Etymological Dictionary of pre-thirteenth-century Turkish, Oxford: Clarendon Press, page 728
Starostin, Sergei, Dybo, Anna, Mudrak, Oleg (2003) “*gẹntü (-nd-)”, in Etymological dictionary of the Altaic languages (Handbuch der Orientalistik; VIII.8), Leiden, New York, Köln: E.J. Brill

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