Reconstruction:Proto-Turkic/čïn

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

Borrowed from Middle Chinese (tsyin). [1]

Adjective

*čïn

  1. true, correct, right
    Synonym: *kẹrtü

Descendants

  • Oghur:
    • Chuvash: чӑн (čăn)
      • Eastern Mari: чын (čyn)
  • Proto-Common Turkic:
  • Oghuz:
    • Old Anatolian Turkish: چین (çın)
      • Azerbaijani: çin
      • Turkish: (dialectal) çın, çin
    • Turkmen: çyn
  • Kipchak:
    • Kipchak-Bulgar:
    • Kipchak-Cuman:
      • Kipchak: (Codex Cumanicus) ćin (/⁠čïn⁠/)
    • Kipchak-Nogai:
    • Kyrgyz-Kipchak:
  • Karluk:
    • Karakhanid: جِنْ (čin /⁠čïn⁠/), 𐽽𐽶𐽺𐾂 (cyṅ /⁠⁠čïn⁠/)
      • Khorezmian Turkic: [script needed] (čïn)
        • Chagatai: چین (čïn)
          • Uyghur: چىن (chin)
          • Uzbek: chin
  • Siberian Turkic:
    • Old Turkic: 𐰲𐰃𐰣 (čin¹)
    • Old Uyghur: 𐽽𐽶𐽺 (cyn /⁠čïn, čin⁠/)
    • North Siberian Turkic:
    • South Siberian Turkic:

References

  1. ^ Clauson, Gerard (1972) “çın”, in An Etymological Dictionary of pre-thirteenth-century Turkish, Oxford: Clarendon Press, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 424