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Reconstruction:Proto-Turkic/yalŋuz

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

  • *yalŋus

Etymology

Tekin and Nişanyan both suggest a crasis of *yalïŋ and *ȫŕ (self) thus "bare, lone self". Erdal instead suggests a crasis of *yalïŋ and *us (reason).[1] Clauson's suggestion that it is foreign due to an original *-s is baseless.

Adjective

*yalŋuz

  1. (Common Turkic) alone, lonely

Declension

Descendants

  • Common Turkic: *yalŋuz (alone)
  • Kipchak
  • Karluk
    • Uzbek: yolgʻiz
  • Oghuz
  • Siberian:
    • Old Turkic: 𐰖𐰀𐰞𐰭𐰆𐰽 (yalıŋus)
      • Old Uyghur: yʾlnkwz, yʾlnqwz (yalŋuz), yʾlnkws (yalŋus)
    • South Siberian:
      • Yenisei:
        • Khakas: чалғыс (çalğıs)
        • Northern Altai: ньагыс (nʹagïs)
        • Shor: чағыс
      • Sayan Turkic:
      • Western Yugur: yaŋğïs
    • North Siberian:
      • Yakut: соҕотох (soğotoq)

References

  1. Erdal, Marcel (1991) Old Turkic Word Formation, volume I, Otto Harrassowitz, →ISBN, page 338
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