Reconstruction:Proto-Turkic/bürküt

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

The original stem may have been *bür-, which preserved in Kazakh бүру (büru, “to grasp prey (of an eagle)”). Or a back formation hypothesis *bürküt > *bür-.

Also compared to Proto-Tungusic *muri (“eagle”), whence in Evenki мури (muri) (Can this⁽⁺⁾ etymology be sourced?)

Noun

*bürküt

eagle

Declension

Declension of *bürküt
	singular ³⁾
nominative	*bürküt
accusative	bürkütüg, bürkütni¹⁾
genitive	*bürkütnüŋ
dative	*bürkütke
locative	*bürkütde
ablative	*bürkütden
allative	*bürkütgerü
instrumental ²⁾	*bürkütün
equative ²⁾	*bürkütče
similative ²⁾	*bürkütleyü
comitative ²⁾	*bürkütlügü

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: пӗркӗт (pĕrk̬ĕt)
Proto-Common Turkic:
- → Proto-Mongolic: *bürgüd
  - Mongolian: бүргэд (bürged)

Proto-Oghuz:
- East Oghuz:
  - Salar: bürgüt
  - Turkmen: bürgüt
Karluk:
- Chagatai: [script needed] (börküt)
  - Uzbek: burgut
  - Uyghur: بۈركۈت (bürküt)
Kipchak:
- North Kipchak:
  - Bashkir: бөркөт (börköt)
  - Tatar: бөркет (börket)
    - → Russian: беркут (berkut)
- South Kipchak:
  - Karakalpak: бүркит (бürkit)
  - Kazakh: бүркіт (bürkıt)
- East Kipchak:
  - Kyrgyz: бүркүт (bürküt)
  - Southern Altai: мӱркӱт (mürküt)
- → Chechen: биркъа (birqʼa)
Siberian:
- South Siberian:
  - Sayan:
    - Tuvan: бүргүт (bürgüt)

References

Doerfer, Gerhard (1965) Türkische und mongolische Elemente im Neupersischen [Turkic and Mongolian Elements in New Persian] (Akademie der Wissenschaften und der Literatur: Veröffentlichungen der Orientalischen Kommission; 19)‎^[1] (in German), volume 2, Wiesbaden: Franz Steiner Verlag, pages 331-333
Sevortjan, E. V. (1978) Etimologičeskij slovarʹ tjurkskix jazykov [Etymological Dictionary of Turkic Languages] (in Russian), volume 2, Moscow: Nauka, page 300
Starostin, Sergei, Dybo, Anna, Mudrak, Oleg (2003) “*bürküt”, in Etymological dictionary of the Altaic languages (Handbuch der Orientalistik; VIII.8)‎^[2], Leiden, New York, Köln: E.J. Brill
Tenišev E. R., editor (1984–2006), Sravnitelʹno-istoričeskaja grammatika tjurkskix jazykov: [Comparative Historical Grammar of Turkic Languages:] (in Russian), Moscow: Nauka, page 169