Reconstruction:Proto-Turkic/köń-

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

*kȫń- (per Khabtagaeva 2019)

Etymology

Khabtagaeva compares Proto-Mongolic *köge (“soot, hindrance”) and Ket куʼ (kuˀ, “coal, soot”). According to her, Yeniseian forms may be Turkic loanwords, or the Turkic word may be of Yeniseian origin.^[1]

Verb

*köń-

(intransitive) to burn
Synonym: *yan-

Derived terms

*köńe (“strong smell of burnt”)
*kömür (“coal”) (?)
*köńtür- (“to burn (transitive)”)

Descendants

Oghur:
- Chuvash: кӳ (kü, “strong smell of burnt”), кӗв (kĕv, “strong smell of burnt”), кӗвҫӗк (kĕvśĕk, “unpleasant (about smell)”), кӗвҫек (kĕvśek, “unpleasant (about smell)”)
Common Turkic:

Argu: كُنْماكْ (könmēk)^[2]
- Khalaj: könmək
Oghuz:
- Old Anatolian Turkish: كوينمك (göyünmek, göyinmek), كويندرمك (göyindürmek), كویمك (göymek), [Term?], [script needed] (göynümek)
  - ⇒ Azerbaijani: göynəmək
  - Ottoman Turkish: كوينمك (göyünmek), كويندرمك (göyündürmek), گویمك (göymek), [Term?], [script needed] (göynümek)
    - Turkish: göynümek, (dialectal) göymek
- Salar: köygüsi
- Turkmen: köýmek
Karluk:
- Karakhanid: كُيْماكْ (köymek)^[3]
  - Chagatai: کویماک (köymäk, küymäk)
    - Uyghur: كۆيمەك (köymek)
    - Uzbek: kuymoq
Kipchak:
- North Kipchak:
  - Bashkir: күйөү (küyöw)
  - Tatar: күйү (küyü)
- West Kipchak:
  - Karachay-Balkar: [script needed] (küy-)
  - Karaim: [script needed] (küy-)
  - Kumyk: [script needed] (güy-)
- South Kipchak:
  - Caspian:
    - Karakalpak: [script needed] (küyiv)
    - Kazakh: күю (küü)
    - Nogai: [script needed] (küy-)
  - Kyrgyz-Kipchak:
    - Kyrgyz: күйүү (küyüü)
    - Southern Altai: кӱйер (küyer)
Siberian:
- Old Uyghur: [script needed] (köy-)
- South Siberian:
  - Sayan:
    - Tofa: [script needed] (xöö, “strong smell of burnt”)
    - Tuvan: хөө (xöö, “strong smell of burnt”)
  - Yenisei:
    - Shor: [script needed] (köy-)
    - Khakas: [script needed] (köy-)

References

^ Khabtagaeva, Bayarma (2019) Language Contact in Siberia: Turkic, Mongolic, and Tungusic Loanwords in Yeniseian (The languages of Asia series; 19)‎^[1], Brill, →ISBN, pages 36-37
^ 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 II, Ankara: Türk Tarih Kurmu Basımevi, published 1939–1943, page 30
^ 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 246

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

[1] Khabtagaeva, Bayarma (2019) Language Contact in Siberia: Turkic, Mongolic, and Tungusic Loanwords in Yeniseian (The languages of Asia series; 19)‎^[1], Brill, →ISBN, pages 36-37

[2] -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 II, Ankara: Türk Tarih Kurmu Basımevi, published 1939–1943, page 30

[3] -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 246

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