Reconstruction:Proto-Turkic/em

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

A widespread Central Eurasian cultural item of Unknown origin. [1]

Noun

*em

  1. remedy, treatment, medicine

Descendants

  • Proto-Mongolic:
  • Oghur:
  • Proto-Common Turkic:
  • Oghuz:
    • Old Anatolian Turkish: ام (em)
      • Ottoman Turkish: ام (em)
        • Turkish: (dialectal) em
    • Salar: em
    • Turkmen: em
  • Kipchak:
    • Kipchak-Cuman:
      • Mamluk-Kipchak: [script needed] (em)
      • Kipchak: em (Codex Cumanicus)
    • Kipchak-Nogai:
    • Kyrgyz-Kipchak:
      • Kyrgyz: эм (em)
      • Southern Altai: эм (em)
  • Karluk:
    • Karakhanid: اَمْ (/⁠em⁠/)
      • Khorezmian Turkic: [script needed] (em)
        • Chagatai: [script needed] (em)
  • Siberian Turkic:
    • Old Uyghur: [Term?] (/⁠em⁠/)
    • South Siberian Turkic:
      • Northern Altai: эм (em)
      • Sayan:

Further reading

  1. ^ Vovin, Alexander, Janhunen, Juha, de la Fuente, José Andrés Alonso (2023) The Tungusic Languages (Routledge Language Family Series), Abingdon: Routledge, page 178