Reconstruction:Proto-Turkic/küńe

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 forms

  • *kuńa

Noun

*küńe

  1. moth

Declension

Declension of *küńe
singular 3)
nominative *küńe
accusative *küńeg, *küńeni1)
genitive *küńeniŋ
dative *küńeke
locative *küńede
ablative *küńeden
allative *küńegerü
instrumental 2) *küńen
equative 2) *küńeče
similative 2) *küńeleyü
comitative 2) *küńeligü
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

  • Oghur:
    • Chuvash: кӗве (kĕve)
  • Common Turkic: *küye
  • Kipchak:
    • North Kipchak:
      • Bashkir: көйә (köyə)
      • Tatar: көя (köya)
    • South Kipchak:
    • East Kipchak:
  • Karluk:
    • Uyghur: [script needed] (küyä)
    • Uzbek: kuya
  • Oghuz:
    • West Oghuz:
    • East Oghuz:
      • Salar: güye
      • Turkmen: güýe
  • Siberian:

References

  • Starostin, Sergei, Dybo, Anna, Mudrak, Oleg (2003) “*küńe / *kuńa”, in Etymological dictionary of the Altaic languages (Handbuch der Orientalistik; VIII.8)‎[1], Leiden, New York, Köln: E.J. Brill
  • Räsänen, Martti (1969) Versuch eines etymologischen Wörterbuchs der Türksprachen (in German), Helsinki: Suomalais-ugrilainen seura, page 297
  • Sevortjan, E. V. (1980) Etimologičeskij slovarʹ tjurkskix jazykov [Etymological Dictionary of Turkic Languages] (in Russian), volume 3, Moscow: Nauka, page 94