Reconstruction:Proto-Turkic/-m

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	E / I	O / U	Ö / Ü
*-ïm	*-im	*-um	*-üm

Etymology 1

Comparable to Proto-Mongolic *-m (“suffix forming deverbal nouns”).

Suffix

*-m

Forms deverbal nouns.
‎*öl- (“to die”) + ‎*-m → ‎*ölüm (“death”)

Derived terms

Category Proto-Turkic terms suffixed with *-m not found

Etymology 2

Suffix

*-m

Forms ordinals of numerals.
Synonym: *-inč

‎*bīr (“one”) + ‎*-m → ‎*bīrim (“first”)

Descendants

Oghur:
- Volga Bulgar: -م (-m)^[1]
  - ⇒ Chuvash: -мӗш (-mĕš)^[2]
⇒ Proto-Common Turkic: *-m-inči
- Arghu:
  - Khalaj: -minci
- Oghuz:
  - Turkmen: -minji

References

^ Tekin, Talât (1988) Volga Bulgar kitabeleri ve Volga Bulgarcası [Volga Bulgarian Ephitaphs and Volga Bulgarian Language]‎^[1] (in Turkish), Ankara: Türk Tarih Kurumu Basımevi, →ISBN, page 40
^ Levitskaja, Lija Sergejevna (1976) Istoričeskaja morfologija čuvašskovo jazyka [Historical morphology of Chuvash]‎^[2], Moscow, pages 47-49

Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “+Im”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
Clauson, Gerard (1972) “”, in An Etymological Dictionary of pre-thirteenth-century Turkish, Oxford: Clarendon Press, →ISBN, →OCLC, page xliv

[1] Tekin, Talât (1988) Volga Bulgar kitabeleri ve Volga Bulgarcası [Volga Bulgarian Ephitaphs and Volga Bulgarian Language]‎^[1] (in Turkish), Ankara: Türk Tarih Kurumu Basımevi, →ISBN, page 40

[2] Levitskaja, Lija Sergejevna (1976) Istoričeskaja morfologija čuvašskovo jazyka [Historical morphology of Chuvash]‎^[2], Moscow, pages 47-49

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