Reconstruction:Proto-Turkic/am

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

Alternative reconstructions

*ham ~ yam

Noun

*am

(Common Turkic, anatomy) vulva, female genital organ
Synonym: *ubut (literally “shameful”)

Coordinate terms: *sik (“penis, male genital organ”), *tïlak (“clitoris”)

Descendants

Common Turkic:

Arghu:
- Khalaj: hâm
Oghuz: اَمْ (am) (Dīwān Lughāt al-Turk)
- Old Anatolian Turkish:
  - Azerbaijani: am
  - Ottoman Turkish: آم
    - Turkish: am
- Turkmen: am
Karluk:
- Karakhanid: اَمْ (am)
  - Uzbek: am
Kipchak:
- Mamluk-Kipchak: اَمْ (am)
- Kipchak-Bulgar:
  - Bashkir: әм (əm), ам (am)
  - Tatar: әм (äm), ам (am)
- Kipchak-Nogai:
  - Kazakh: ам (am)
- Kyrgyz-Kipchak:
  - Kyrgyz: ам (am)
  - Southern Altai: ам (am)
Siberian Turkic:
- North Siberian Turkic:
  - Yakut: абас (abas)
- South Siberian Turkic:
  - Northern Altai: ам (am)

References

al-Kashgarî, Mahmud (1072–1074) Besim Atalay, transl., Divanü Lûgat-it-Türk Tercümesi [Translation of the “Compendium of the languages of the Turks”] (Türk Dil Kurumu Yayınları; 521) (in Turkish), 1985 edition, volume I, Ankara: Türk Tarih Kurmu Basımevi, published 1939–1943, page 38
Clauson, Gerard (1972) “am”, in An Etymological Dictionary of pre-thirteenth-century Turkish, Oxford: Clarendon Press, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 155