Reconstruction:Proto-Turkic/bū

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

Pronoun

*bū

(Common Turkic) this

Declension

Declension of *bū
(*pronominal-n declension*)
	singular
nominative	*bū
accusative	*būnï
genitive	*būnïŋ
dative	*būŋa
locative	*būnta
ablative	*būntan
allative ¹⁾	*būŋaru
instrumental ¹⁾	*būnïn
equative ¹⁾	*būnča
similative ¹⁾	*būnlayu
comitative ¹⁾	*būnlugu

1) The original allative, instrumental, equative, similative & comitative cases have fallen into disuse in many modern Turkic languages.

Descendants

Proto-Common Turkic: *bū

Arghu:
- Khalaj: bô
Oghuz:
- West Oghuz:
  - Old Anatolian Turkish: [script needed] (bu)
    - Azerbaijani: bu
    - Ottoman Turkish: بو (bu)
      - Turkish: bu
      - Gagauz: bu
- Oghuz-Uyghur:
  - Salar: bu
- East Oghuz:
  - Turkmen: bu
Karluk:
- Karakhanid: [script needed] (bū)
  - Chagatai: [script needed] (bu)
    - Uyghur: [script needed] (bu)
    - Uzbek: bu
Kipchak:
- North Kipchak:
  - Bashkir: был (bıl)
  - Tatar: бу (bu)
- West Kipchak:
  - Crimeaic Kipchak:
    - Crimean Tatar: bo
    - Crimean Tatar: бу (bu)
  - Karachay-Balkar: бу (bu)
  - Karaim: бу (bu)
  - Kumyk: бу (bu)
- South Kipchak:
  - Karakalpak: bul
  - Kazakh: бұл (būl)
  - Nogai: бу (bu)
- East Kipchak:
  - Kyrgyz: бул (bul)
  - Southern Altai: бу (bu)
Siberian:
- Old Turkic: 𐰉𐰆 (bu)
  - Old Uyghur: bw (bu)
    - Western Yugur: pu
- North Siberian:
  - Dolgan: бу
  - Yakut: бу (bu)
- South Siberian:
  - Sayan Turkic:
    - Tofa: бо
    - Tuvan: бо (bo)
  - Yeniseian Turkic:
    - Khakas: пу (pu)
    - Shor: пу

References

Clauson, Gerard (1972) “bu:”, in An Etymological Dictionary of pre-thirteenth-century Turkish, Oxford: Clarendon Press, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 292
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, Ankara: Türk Tarih Kurmu Basımevi, published 1939–1943
Sevortjan, E. V. (1978) Etimologičeskij slovarʹ tjurkskix jazykov [Etymological Dictionary of Turkic Languages] (in Russian), volume II, Moscow: Nauka, page 225
Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “bu”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
Räsänen, Martti (1969) Versuch eines etymologischen Wörterbuchs der Türksprachen (in German), Helsinki: Suomalais-ugrilainen seura, page 85
Starostin, Sergei, Dybo, Anna, Mudrak, Oleg (2003) “*bu(-n)”, in Etymological dictionary of the Altaic languages (Handbuch der Orientalistik; VIII.8)‎^[1], Leiden, New York, Köln: E.J. Brill
Tekin, Talât (1995) Türk Dillerinde Birincil Uzun Ünlüler [Primary Long Vowels in Turkic Languages] (Türk Dilleri Araştırmaları Dizisi; 13)‎^[2], Ankara: T.C. Kültür Bakanlığı, →ISBN, page 177