Reconstruction:Proto-Turkic/bāy

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

Adjective

*bāy

  1. rich

Descendants

  • Proto-Common Turkic:
  • Oghuz:
    • Old Anatolian Turkish: بای (bay)
      • Azerbaijani: (archaic) bay
      • Ottoman Turkish: بای (bay)
    • Turkmen: baý
  • Kipchak:
    • Kipchak-Bulgar:
    • Kipchak-Cuman:
      • Mamluk-Kipchak: [script needed] (bāy)
      • Kipchak: bay (Codex Cumanicus)
    • Kipchak-Nogai:
    • Kyrgyz-Kipchak:
  • Karluk:
    • Karakhanid: بای (bʾy /⁠bāy⁠/), 𐽼𐽰𐽶 (pʾy /⁠bāy⁠/)
      • Khorezmian Turkic: [script needed] (bay)
  • Siberian Turkic:
    • Old Turkic: 𐰉𐰖 (b¹y¹)
      • Turkish: bay (mister, sir) (learned)
    • Old Uyghur: [Term?] (/⁠bay⁠/)
    • North Siberian Turkic:
    • South Siberian Turkic:
  • Proto-Mongolic: *bayan
    • Middle Mongol: ᠪᠠᠶ᠋ᠠᠨ (bayan)
      • Classical Mongolian: ᠪᠠᠶ᠋ᠠᠨ (bayan)
    • Oghur:
      • Chuvash: пуян (pujan)
    • Proto-Tungusic:
    • Proto-Slavic: *banъ (see there for further descendants)
  • Russian: бай (baj)

Derived terms

  • *bāyu- (to become rich)
    • Oghur:
      • Chuvash: пуй (puj)
    • Proto-Common Turkic:
  • Oghuz:
    • Old Anatolian Turkish: بایمق (bayımaq)
      • Ottoman Turkish: بایرمق, باییمق
        • Turkish: (dialectal) bayımak, bayırmak
    • Turkmen: baýamak
  • Kipchak:
    • Kipchak-Bulgar:
    • Kipchak-Cuman:
      • Mamluk-Kipchak: [script needed] (bayu-)
      • Crimean Tatar: bayımaq
    • Kumyk: байымакъ (bayımaq)
    • Kipchak-Nogai:
    • Kyrgyz-Kipchak:
      • Kyrgyz: баюу (bayuu)
      • Southern Altai: байыыр (bayïïr)
  • Karluk:
    • Karakhanid: بَیُوماقْ (bayūmʾq /⁠bayumaq⁠/), 𐽼𐽰𐽶𐽳𐽹𐽰𐽲𐾄 (pʾywmʾq̈ /⁠bayumaq⁠/)
      • Chagatai: بایماق (bayimaq)
        • Uyghur: بېيىماق (bëyimaq)
        • Uzbek: boyimoq
  • Siberian Turkic:
    • North Siberian Turkic:
    • South Siberian Turkic:
      • Yenisei:
        • Khakas: пайирға (payirğa)

Further reading

  • Clauson, Gerard (1972) “b:ay”, in An Etymological Dictionary of pre-thirteenth-century Turkish, Oxford: Clarendon Press, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 384
  • 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 II, Wiesbaden: Franz Steiner Verlag, page 259