Reconstruction:Proto-Turkic/īŕte-

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 forms

*īrte-

Etymology

From *īŕ (“trace”).

Verb

*īŕte-

(transitive) to search, seek, pursue

Derived terms

*īŕte-k
*īŕte-t-
*īŕte-n-
*īŕte-l-

Related terms

*īŕ

Descendants

Common Turkic: *īzte- ~ *īzde-

Arghu:
- Khalaj: hişəmək
Oghuz:
- Old Anatolian Turkish: اِسْتَمَكْ (istämäk)
  - Azerbaijani: istəmək
  - Gagauz: istemää
  - Ottoman Turkish: استمك (istemek)
    - Turkish: istemek
      - Cypriot Turkish: isdemek
- Turkmen: islemek
Kipchak:
- Kipchak: [script needed] (izde-) (Codex Cumanicus)
- North Kipchak
  - Bashkir: эҙлә- (eźlə-), (Eastern) Bashkir: эҙҙә- (eźźə-)
  - Tatar: эзләргә (ezlärgä)
- South Kipchak
  - Kipchak-Nogai
    - Kazakh: іздеу (ızdeu)
  - Kyrgyz-Kipchak
    - Kyrgyz: изде- (izde-)
    - Southern Altai: исте- (iste-)
Karluk:
- Karakhanid: اِسْتاماكْ (istēmēk)
  - Khorezmian Turkic: [script needed] (iste-)
    - Chagatai: [script needed] (iste-)
      - Uyghur: ئىزدىمەك (izdimek)
      - Uzbek: istamoq
Siberian Turkic:
- Old Uyghur: 𐽰𐽶𐽻𐾀𐽰𐽹𐽰𐽷 (ʾystʾmʾk /⁠istemek⁠/, “to search for, to ask, to demand, to check”)
- North Siberian Turkic:
  - Yakut: ирдээ (irdee)

References

Clauson, Gerard (1972) “iste:-”, in An Etymological Dictionary of pre-thirteenth-century Turkish, Oxford: Clarendon Press, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 243
Starostin, Sergei, Dybo, Anna, Mudrak, Oleg (2003) “*īŕ / *ɨ̄ŕ”, in Etymological dictionary of the Altaic languages (Handbuch der Orientalistik; VIII.8), Leiden, New York, Köln: E.J. Brill