Reconstruction:Proto-Turkic/küŕen

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

Akin to Proto-Mongolic *kürene (“ferret, weasel”), Proto-Tungusic *xur- (“bear; gopher; bear's flesh (as food); young tarbagan”). (Can this⁽⁺⁾ etymology be sourced?)

Noun

*küŕen

ferret, weasel
Synonyms: *argun (“a kind of weasel”), *tok- (“weasel”)

Declension

Declension of *küŕen
	singular ³⁾
nominative	*küŕen
accusative	küŕenig, küŕenni¹⁾
genitive	*küŕenniŋ
dative	*küŕenke
locative	*küŕente
ablative	*küŕenten
allative	*küŕengerü
instrumental ²⁾	*küŕenin
equative ²⁾	*küŕenče
similative ²⁾	*küŕenleyü
comitative ²⁾	*küŕenligü

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:
- → Hungarian: görény
- →? Proto-Mongolic: *kürene
  - Native Script Mongolian: ᠬᠥ᠊᠊ᠷ᠊ᠢ᠊᠊ᠨ
    ᠬᠥ᠊᠊ᠷ‍ᠠ‍‍ᠠ‍᠊ᠢ᠊ᠡ᠋ (kö--r-i--n kö--r‍a‍‍a‍-i-e)
  - Mongolian: хүрэн (xüren)
Proto-Common Turkic: *küzen

Oghuz:
- East Oghuz:
  - ⇒ Turkmen: alajgözen
Kipchak:
- → Armenian: գյուջեն (gyuǰen), գուջեն (guǰen) — Nor Nakhichevan
- West Kipchak:
  - Kumyk: гёзен (gözen)
- North Kipchak:
  - Bashkir: көҙән (köźən)
- South Kipchak:
  - Karakalpak: [script needed] (güzen)
  - Kazakh: күзен (küzen), сасық күзен (sasyq küzen)
- Kyrgyz-Kipchak:
  - Kyrgyz: күзөн (küzön)
  - Southern Altai: кӱзен (küzen)
Siberian:
- South Siberian:
  - Yeniseian:
    - Khakas: кӱзен (küzen)
  - Sayan:
    - Tuvan: күзэн (küzen, “Siberian polecat”)

References

Starostin, Sergei, Dybo, Anna, Mudrak, Oleg (2003) “küŕen”, in Etymological dictionary of the Altaic languages (Handbuch der Orientalistik; VIII.8)‎^[1], Leiden, New York, Köln: E.J. Brill
Clauson, Gerard (1972) “”, in An Etymological Dictionary of pre-thirteenth-century Turkish, Oxford: Clarendon Press, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 761
Räsänen, Martti (1969) Versuch eines etymologischen Wörterbuchs der Türksprachen (in German), Helsinki: Suomalais-ugrilainen seura, page 312
Levitskaja, L. S., Dybo, A. V., Rassadin, V. I. (1997) Etimologičeskij slovarʹ tjurkskix jazykov [Etymological Dictionary of Turkic Languages] (in Russian), volume 5, Moscow: Jazyki russkoj kulʹtury, page 86
Tenišev E. R., editor (1984–2006), Sravnitelʹno-istoričeskaja grammatika tjurkskix jazykov: [Comparative Historical Grammar of Turkic Languages:] (in Russian), Moscow: Nauka, page 163