Reconstruction:Proto-Turkic/(y)ipgin

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

Uncertain, possibly from a Pre-Turkic substrate language.

Clauson regards *yipin to be the original form and considers it a foreign borrowing with *-g- being added on to Turkify the word.

Adjective

*(y)ipgin

  1. (Siberian, Cuman) purple, violet, dark red

Descendants

  • Common Turkic:
  • Karluk:
    • Karakhanid: یِپْگِنْ (yipkin), یِپْگِلْ (yipkil), یِپِنْ (yipin)
      • Chagatai: ایپكن (épgin, ipgin, “black fabric”)
  • Kipchak:
    • Kipchak-Cuman:
      • Cuman: ipchin
        • Mamluk-Kipchak: ایپكن (ipkin)
        • Karaim: ipkin
        • → Chuvash: йӗпкӗн (jĕpkĕn, “dense (of colors)”)
  • Siberian Turkic:
    • Old Uyghur: 𐽶𐽶𐽼𐽷𐽶𐽺 (yypkyn /⁠yipgin, yépgin⁠/, “purple, violet, dark red”)
    • South Siberian:
      • Sayan Turkic:
      • Yenisei Turkic:
        • Northern Altai: ӧкпен (ökpen, “scarlet, crimson”)

See also

Colors in Proto-Turkic · *boduglar, *bodugsāyïn (layout · text)
     *āk, *ürüŋ      *boŕ, *sūr, *kuba, *čāl, *oń      *kara
             *kïŕïl; *āl              *koŋur, *yạgïŕ              *sārïg, *yẹgren
                          *yāĺïl             
                          *kȫk             
                          *(y)ip-             

References

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