Reconstruction:Proto-Turkic/tōtak

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

It cannot be from Proto-Turkic *tut- because of the archaic roundness and the length of the vowel.

Sevortyan and Doerfer reject a derivation from *tut-, and Doerfer considers the derivation from Proto-Turkic *tut- a folk etymology invented to explain the evolution of the Ottoman "-u-" vowel.^[1]^[2]

Noun

*tōtak

(Oghuz) lips
Synonym: *erin
(Karluk) vagina
Synonym: *am

Declension

Declension of *tōtak
	singular ³⁾
nominative	*tōtak
accusative	tōtakïg, tōtaknï¹⁾
genitive	*tōtaknïŋ
dative	*tōtakka
locative	*tōtakda
ablative	*tōtakdan
allative	*tōtakgaru
instrumental ²⁾	*tōtakïn
equative ²⁾	*tōtakča
similative ²⁾	*tōtaklayu
comitative ²⁾	*tōtaklïgu

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

Proto-Common Turkic:

Oghuz:
- Old Anatolian Turkish: طوداق (dudaq, dodaq)
  - Classical Azerbaijani:
    - Azerbaijani: dodaq
    - Qashqai: دوداق (dudaq)
    - → Khalaj: dudaq
  - Gagauz: dudak
  - Ottoman Turkish: طوداق (dudak), دوداق (dudak)
    - Turkish: dudak
    - → Armenian: տուտախ (tutax)
    - → Ladino: dudak
- →? Chagatai: [script needed] (dudaq)^[3]
  - Uzbek: dudoq
- Salar: dodaq
- Turkmen: dōdak
- → Cuman: toodac
  - Crimean Tatar: dudaq
  - Krymchak: dudaq
  - Urum: дудах
  - Karaim: дудакъ
  - → Bashkir: дудаҡ (dudaq)
  - → Volga Bulgar:
    - Chuvash: тута (tut̬a)
Karluk:
- Chagatai:
  - Uyghur: [script needed] (dudaq, “pussy, vagina”)

References

^ Doerfer, Gerhard (1963–1975) Türkische und mongolische Elemente im Neupersischen [Turkic and Mongolian Elements in New Persian] (Akademie der Wissenschaften und der Literatur: Veröffentlichungen der Orientalischen Kommission)‎^[1] (in German), Wiesbaden: Franz Steiner Verlag, page 952
^ Etimologičeskij slovarʹ tjurkskix jazykov [Etymological Dictionary of Turkic Languages] (in Russian), Moscow, 1974–, page 251
^ Eckmann, Janos. (1988). trans. Günay Qarağac Çağatayca El Kitabı. p. 255

From Turkic Lexicon.[2]
From Turkbitig. [3]
Starostin, Sergei, Dybo, Anna, Mudrak, Oleg (2003) “*dōtak”, in Etymological dictionary of the Altaic languages (Handbuch der Orientalistik; VIII.8), Leiden, New York, Köln: E.J. Brill

[1] Doerfer, Gerhard (1963–1975) Türkische und mongolische Elemente im Neupersischen [Turkic and Mongolian Elements in New Persian] (Akademie der Wissenschaften und der Literatur: Veröffentlichungen der Orientalischen Kommission)‎^[1] (in German), Wiesbaden: Franz Steiner Verlag, page 952

[2] Etimologičeskij slovarʹ tjurkskix jazykov [Etymological Dictionary of Turkic Languages] (in Russian), Moscow, 1974–, page 251

[3] Eckmann, Janos. (1988). trans. Günay Qarağac Çağatayca El Kitabı. p. 255

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