Reconstruction:Proto-Turkic/abuč

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

Compare Proto-Mongolic *abuca (“handful”).

Noun

*abuč

handful

Declension

Declension of *abuč
	singular ³⁾
nominative	*abuč
accusative	abučug, abučnï¹⁾
genitive	*abučnuŋ
dative	*abučka
locative	*abučda
ablative	*abučdan
allative	*abučgaru
instrumental ²⁾	*abučun
equative ²⁾	*abučča
similative ²⁾	*abučlayu
comitative ²⁾	*abučlugu

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.

Descendants

Oghur:
- Chuvash: ывӑҫ (yvăś)
Common Turkic:

Oghuz:
- Old Anatolian Turkish:
  - Azerbaijani: ovuc
  - Gagauz: avuç
  - Ottoman Turkish: آوج (avuc), آئوج (aʼvuc), آووج (avuc)
    - Turkish: avuç
    - → Armenian: ավուճ (avuč)
- Salar: uc
- Turkmen: owuç
Karluk:
- Karakhanid: [script needed] (avuč)
  - Khorezmian Turkic: [script needed] (avuč)
    - Chagatai: [script needed] (ovuč)
      - Uzbek: havuch
Kipchak:
- Kipchak: [script needed] (awut)
- Mamluk-Kipchak: [Arabic needed] (awuč)
- West Kipchak:
  - Crimean Tatar: avuç
  - Karachay-Balkar: уууч (uuuç)
  - Karaim: avuč ,uvuč
  - Kumyk: увуч (uwuç)
- North Kipchak:
  - Bashkir: ус (us)
  - Tatar: уч (uç)
- South Kipchak:
  - Caspian:
    - Kazakh: уыс (uys)
    - Karakalpak: uwıs
    - Nogai: увыс (uvıs)
  - Kyrgyz-Kipchak:
    - Kyrgyz: ууч (uuc)
    - Southern Altai: ууш (uuš)
Siberian:
- Old Uyghur: 𐽰𐽰𐽸𐽳𐾀 (ʾʾdwt /⁠adut⁠/)
- Old Uyghur: 𐽰𐽰𐽱𐽳𐾀 (ʾʾβwt /⁠avut⁠/)
  - Western Yugur: oʂ (oš)
- South Siberian:
  - Sayan:
    - Tofa: оъш (o"š)
  - Yenisei:
    - Khakas: оос (oos)
    - Shor: ош (oš), оош (ooš)

References

Starostin, Sergei, Dybo, Anna, Mudrak, Oleg (2003) Etymological dictionary of the Altaic languages (Handbuch der Orientalistik; VIII.8), Leiden, New York, Köln: E.J. Brill

Sevortjan, E. V. (1974) Etimologičeskij slovarʹ tjurkskix jazykov [Etymological Dictionary of Turkic Languages] (in Russian), volume I, Moscow: Nauka, page 409