Reconstruction:Proto-Turkic/sub

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

  • *sūb (per Clauson and Tenišev, following Old Turkic reflexes.)
  • *sïb (per EDAL, following Oghuric reflexes.)

Reconstruction notes

Vowel length discrepancy between Old Turkic and Oghuz is noted. The short-voweled variant is adopted here out of convention.

Noun

*sub

  1. water

Declension

Declension of *sub
singular 3)
nominative *sub
accusative *subug, *subnï1)
genitive *subnuŋ
dative *subka
locative *subda
ablative *subdan
allative *subgaru
instrumental 2) *subun
equative 2) *subča
similative 2) *sublayu
comitative 2) *sublugu
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.

Derived terms

  • *subsa- (“to become thirsty”)
  • *subsuš (“watery decoction”)
  • *subï- (“to become watery”) (?)
  • *sïba- (“to smear”)

Descendants

  • Oghur:
    • Khazar: *šïw, *σιου (*siou)
      • → Ancient Greek: Χαράσιου (Kharásiou, “name of a river”)
    • Volga Bulgar: شِونَ (šıw-na) (with positive possessive *-n and dative case *-(k)a)
  • Common Turkic:

Further reading

  • Clauson, Gerard (1972) “su:v”, in An Etymological Dictionary of pre-thirteenth-century Turkish, Oxford: Clarendon Press, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 783
  • Levitskaja, L. S., Dybo, A. V., Rassadin, V. I. (2000) Etimologičeskij slovarʹ tjurkskix jazykov [Etymological Dictionary of Turkic Languages] (in Russian), volume 6, Moscow: Indrik, page 348
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  • Doerfer, Gerhard (1967) Türkische und mongolische Elemente im Neupersischen [Turkic and Mongolian Elements in New Persian] (Akademie der Wissenschaften und der Literatur: Veröffentlichungen der Orientalischen Kommission; 20)‎[1] (in German), volume 3, Wiesbaden: Franz Steiner Verlag, pages 281-282
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