Reconstruction:Proto-Turkic/baĺč

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.

See also: Reconstruction:Proto-Turkic/bāĺ

Proto-Turkic

Etymology

Akin to Proto-Mongolic *maljan (“bald”) (<*balja/balji) (cf. Mongolian мулзан (mulzan, “bald”)). Also Mongolian тарвалжи бүргэд (tarvalži bürged, “steppe eagle, acc. the logic literally bald-headed eagle”) was suggested.^[1]

Noun

*baĺč

(anatomy) head
beginning

Declension

Declension of *baĺč
	singular ³⁾
nominative	*baĺč
accusative	baĺčïg, baĺčnï¹⁾
genitive	*baĺčnïŋ
dative	*baĺčka
locative	*baĺčda
ablative	*baĺčdan
allative	*baĺčgaru
instrumental ²⁾	*baĺčïn
equative ²⁾	*baĺčča
similative ²⁾	*baĺčlayu
comitative ²⁾	*baĺčlïgu

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.

Derived terms

*baĺč-lïg
*baĺč-sïŕ
*baĺč-lïk
*baĺč-la-

Descendants

Oghur:
- Bulgar: بج (baç), بَجنَ (baçna, “beginning of”)^[2]
  - Chuvash: пуҫ (puś)
- >? Bulgar: بلج
Proto-Common Turkic: *baš

Arghu:
- Khalaj: baş
Proto-Oghuz: *baš
- West Oghuz:
  - Old Anatolian Turkish: بَاشْ (baş)
    - Azerbaijani: baş
    - Gagauz: baş
    - Ottoman Turkish: باش (baş), պաշ (baş) — Armeno-Turkish
      - Turkish: baş
      - → Albanian: bash
      - → Armenian: պաշ (paš)
      - → Bulgarian: баш (baš)
      - → Macedonian: баш (baš)
      - → Romanian: baș
      - → Serbo-Croatian: bȁš / ба̏ш
- East Oghuz:
  - Salar: baş
  - Turkmen: baş
Karluk:
- Karakhanid: بَشْ, باشْ (baš)
  - Khorezmian Turkic: باش (baš)
    - Chagatai: باش (baš)
      - Uzbek: bosh
      - Uyghur: باش (bash)
Kipchak:
- Kipchak: بَش (baş)
  - North Kipchak:
    - Bashkir: баш (baş)
    - Tatar: баш (baş)
  - West Kipchak:
    - Crimean Tatar: baş
    - Karachay-Balkar: баш (baş)
    - Karaim: [script needed] (baş)
    - Kumyk: баш (baş)
  - South Kipchak:
    - Caspian:
      - Kazakh: бас (bas)
      - Karakalpak: bas
      - Nogai: бас (bas)
    - Kyrgyz-Kipchak:
      - Kyrgyz: баш (baş)
      - Southern Altai: баш (baš)
Siberian:
- Old Turkic: 𐰉𐱁 (baš)
- Old Uyghur: 𐽼𐽰𐽿 (baš /⁠pʾš⁠/)
  - Western Yugur: baʂ
- North Siberian:
  - Dolgan: бас (bas)
  - Yakut: бас (bas)
- South Siberian:
  - Sayan Turkic:
    - Tuvan: баш (baş)
    - Tofa: баъш
  - Yenisei Turkic:
    - Khakas: пас (pas)
    - Shor: паш (paš)

References

^ Tekin, T. (1988). TÜRKÇE / ş /, ÇUVAŞÇA / ś / AND MOĞOLCA / ç /. Türk Dili Araştırmaları Yıllığı - Belleten, 34 (1986), 71-75. [1]
^ Tekin, Talat (1988) Volga Bulgar kitabeleri ve Volga Bulgarcası‎^[2], Ankara: Türk Tarih Kurumu Basımevi, →ISBN, page 13

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

[1] Tekin, T. (1988). TÜRKÇE / ş /, ÇUVAŞÇA / ś / AND MOĞOLCA / ç /. Türk Dili Araştırmaları Yıllığı - Belleten, 34 (1986), 71-75. [1]

[2] Tekin, Talat (1988) Volga Bulgar kitabeleri ve Volga Bulgarcası‎^[2], Ankara: Türk Tarih Kurumu Basımevi, →ISBN, page 13

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