Reconstruction:Proto-Turkic/ū

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

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Noun

*ū

sleep

Declension

Declension of *ū
	singular ³⁾
nominative	*ū
accusative	ūg, ūnï¹⁾
genitive	*ūnuŋ
dative	*ūka
locative	*ūda
ablative	*ūdan
allative	*ūgaru
instrumental ²⁾	*ūn
equative ²⁾	*ūča
similative ²⁾	*ūlayu
comitative ²⁾	*ūlugu

¹⁾ Originally used only in pronominal declension.
²⁾ The original instrumental, equative, similative, and comitative cases have fallen into disuse in many modern Turkic languages.
³⁾ Plurality in Proto-Turkic is disputed. See also the notes on the Proto-Turkic/Locative-ablative case and plurality page on Wikibooks.

Derived terms

*ū-dï- (“to sleep”)

Descendants

Arghu:
- Khalaj: û
Medieval:
- Karakhanid: اُو (ū)
- Old Turkic:
  - Old Turkic: 𐰆 (u)
  - Old Uyghur: ՚ww (u)
Siberian
- Dolgan: уу (uu)
- Yakut: уу (uu)

References

Clauson, Gerard (1972) “u:”, in An Etymological Dictionary of pre-thirteenth-century Turkish, Oxford: Clarendon Press, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 2
Starostin, Sergei, Dybo, Anna, Mudrak, Oleg (2003) “*ū-dɨ-, *ū-dɨ-k-la-”, in Etymological dictionary of the Altaic languages (Handbuch der Orientalistik; VIII.8), Leiden, New York, Köln: E.J. Brill