Reconstruction:Proto-Turkic/-gü

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

preceding vowel
A / Ï / O / U	E / I / Ö / Ü
*-gu	*-gü

Etymology 1

Suffix

*-gü

Derives nouns from verbs.

Related terms

*bel-gü (“sign”)
*buka-gu (“fetters, chain, string”)
*bur-gu (“trumpet, pipe (of a plant)”)
*buŕa-gu (“calf”)
*kar-gu (“reed”)
*küde-gü (“son-in-law”)
*süŋ-gü (“lance”)
*tala-gu (“deadly poison, diarrhoea, ulcer disease”)
*tiakï-gu (“hen”)
*tuma-gu (“sniffles, cold, rheum”)
*törpi-gü (“file, rasp”)

Derived terms

Proto-Turkic terms suffixed with *-gü

Reconstruction:Proto-Turkic/belgü

Reconstruction:Proto-Turkic/bilegü

Reconstruction:Proto-Turkic/burgu

Reconstruction:Proto-Turkic/buŕagu

Reconstruction:Proto-Turkic/süŋgü

Reconstruction:Proto-Turkic/takïgu

Reconstruction:Proto-Turkic/tumagu

Etymology 2

Suffix

*-gü

Suffix creating future verbal adjective.
*bargu-yẹr
The place where [one] will go to.
Suffix creating future tense.
‎*bar- (“to go”) + ‎*-gü → ‎*bargu (“Will go.”)

Derived terms

*-gučï
*-gusï

Descendants

Oghur:
- Chuvash: -ӑ (-ă), -ӗ (-ĕ, “future tense”)
Common Turkic:

Oghuz:
- ⇒ Proto-Oghuz: (*gu-čak>) *-ï̄čak
  - Old Anatolian Turkish: [script needed] (-ıčak)
    - Azerbaijani: -acak
    - Gagauz: -acak
    - Ottoman Turkish: [script needed] (-ačak)
      - Turkish: -acak
  - Turkmen: -jak, -jek
  - →? Kipchak: *-ačak
  - → Uzbek: -ajak
- ⇒ Proto-Oghuz: (*gu-sar>) *-ï̄sar
  - Old Anatolian Turkish: [script needed] (-ısar)
- Salar: (*-gu *erür>) -ğur, -gür (“future tense”), -ğu, -gü (“verbal adjective”)
- ⇒ Proto-Oghuz: (*-gusï>) *-asï
  - Early Old Oghuz: [script needed] (-āsı, “verbal adjective”)
    - Turkish: -ası
    - Turkmen: -asy
Karakhanid: [script needed] (-gu/-gü)
- Khorezmian Turkic: [script needed] (-gu/-gü)
  - Chagatai: [script needed] (-gu/-gü)
    - >? Uyghur: ى (i)
    - >? Uzbek: -a

References

Gültekin, Yrd. Doç. Dr. Mevlüt. “TARİHÎ VE ÇAĞDAŞ TÜRK LEHÇELERİNDE GELECEK ZAMAN EKLERİ ÜZERİNE BİR DENEME”. Türklük Bilimi Araştırmaları, sy. 20, 2006, ss. 33-59.