Reconstruction:Proto-Turkic/borsuk

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

*borsmuk

Reconstruction

Reflexes of /-m-/ in Siberian languages may be due to the nasal in the suffix.

Noun

*borsuk

badger

Declension

Declension of *borsuk
	singular ³⁾
nominative	*borsuk
accusative	borsukug, borsuknï¹⁾
genitive	*borsuknuŋ
dative	*borsukka
locative	*borsukda
ablative	*borsukdan
allative	*borsukgaru
instrumental ²⁾	*borsukun
equative ²⁾	*borsukča
similative ²⁾	*borsuklayu
comitative ²⁾	*borsuklugu

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

→ Hungarian: borz
Oghur:
- Chuvash: пурӑш (purăš)
Proto-Common Turkic: *borsuk, *borsmuk

Oghuz:بُرْسُقْ (borsuq)^[1]
- Old Anatolian Turkish:
  - Azerbaijani: porsuq
  - Ottoman Turkish: پورصوق (porsuk), پورصق (porsuk), پورسوق (porsuk), پورسق (porsuk), بورصوق (porsuk, borsuk, bursuk), بورصق (porsuk, borsuk, bursuk), بورسوق (porsuk, borsuk, bursuk), بورسق (porsuk, borsuk, bursuk)
    - Turkish: porsuk
    - → Armenian: փորսուղ (pʻorsuġ)
    - → Bulgarian: борсу̀к (borsùk), бърсу̀к (bǎrsùk)
    - → Lithuanian: barsukas
    - → Macedonian: бурсук (bursuk)
    - → Romanian: bursuc
    - → Ukrainian: борсу́к (borsúk)
      - → Polish: borsuk
- Salar: borsuq
- Turkmen: torsuk
Karluk:
- Karakhanid: بُرْسْمُقْ (borsmuq)
  - Khorezmian Turkic:
    - Chagatai: بورسوق (borsuq)
      - Uzbek: boʻrsiq
      - Uyghur: بورسۇق (borsuq)
Kipchak:
- Kipchak: بورسق (borsuq)
  - North Kipchak:
    - Bashkir: бурһыҡ (burhıq)
    - Tatar: бурсык (bursıq)
  - West Kipchak:
    - Karachay-Balkar: борсукъ (borsuq)
    - Kumyk: порсукъ (porsuq)
  - South Kipchak:
    - Kazakh: борсық (borsyq)
  - East Kipchak:
    - Kyrgyz: борсук (borsuk)
    - Southern Altai: борсык (borsïk)
Siberian:
- North Siberian:
- South Siberian:
  - Sayan:
    - Tofa: борсуӄ (borsuq)
    - Tuvan: морзук (morzuk)
  - Yenisei:
    - Khakas: порсых (porsıx)
→ Russian: барсу́к (barsúk)
- → Yakut: барсук (barsuk)}

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 III, Ankara: Türk Tarih Kurmu Basımevi, published 1939–1943, page 417

Clauson, Gerard (1972) “”, in An Etymological Dictionary of pre-thirteenth-century Turkish, Oxford: Clarendon Press, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 369
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 284
Starostin, Sergei, Dybo, Anna, Mudrak, Oleg (2003) “*borsuk, *borsmuk”, in Etymological dictionary of the Altaic languages (Handbuch der Orientalistik; VIII.8)‎^[2], Leiden, New York, Köln: E.J. Brill

[1] -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 III, Ankara: Türk Tarih Kurmu Basımevi, published 1939–1943, page 417

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