Reconstruction:Proto-Turkic/sāyïn
Proto-Turkic
Etymology
The form *sāyu seen in the Siberian languages are from *sā- (“to count”) + *-yu (“gerundive suffix”) and the rest of the forms seem to be extended with *-ïn (“instrumental suffix”) from that.
Postposition
*sāyïn
Descendants
- Oghuz:
- Turkmen: sāýyn
- Karluk:
- Karakhanid:
- Chagatai:
- Uzbek: sayin
- Uyghur: [script needed] (sayın)
- Chagatai:
- Karakhanid:
- Kipchak:
- Proto-Common Turkic: *sāyu
References
- Clauson, Gerard (1972) “sayu:”, in An Etymological Dictionary of pre-thirteenth-century Turkish, Oxford: Clarendon Press, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 858