Reconstruction:Proto-Turkic/tokū

Proto-Turkic

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.

Alternative Reconstructions

Etymology

Unknown. Perhaps a simplex. Attested very sporadically, and almost extinct in modern languages.

Chuvash descendant may instead be a borrowing from Proto-Finno-Ugric.

Noun

*tokū

  1. rite, ritual
  2. (Common Turkic) ceremony, traditional festivities

Declension

Declension of *tokū
singular 3)
nominative *tokū
accusative *tokūg, *tokūnï1)
genitive *tokūnuŋ
dative *tokūka
locative *tokūda
ablative *tokūdan
allative *tokūgaru
instrumental 2) *tokūn
equative 2) *tokūča
similative 2) *tokūlayu
comitative 2) *tokūlugu
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: *tokū
    • Bulgar:
      • ⇒? Chuvash: тăхлачă (tăhlačă, “son- or daughter-in-law, matchmaker”)
  • Proto-Common Turkic: *tokū, *toku?
  • Oghuz:
  • Karluk:
    • Karakhanid: طوقو (toḳu) (Kutadgu Bilig)
      • Chagatai: [script needed] (toka)
  • Siberian Turkic:
    • Old Uyghur: 𐾀𐽳𐽲𐽳 (twqw /⁠toḳu⁠/)

References

  • Clauson, Gerard (1972) “(1) toku: (? toko:)”, in An Etymological Dictionary of pre-thirteenth-century Turkish, Oxford: Clarendon Press, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 466
  • Jegorov, V. G. (1964) “ТӐХЛАЧӐ”, in Etimologičeskij slovarʹ čuvašskovo jazyka [Etymological Dictionary of the Chuvash Language] (in Russian), Cheboksary: Čuvašskoje knižnoje izdatelʹstvo, page 241
  • Räsänen, Martti (1969) “toku”, in Versuch eines etymologischen Wörterbuchs der Türksprachen (in German), Helsinki: Suomalais-ugrilainen seura, page 485
  • Starostin, Sergei, Dybo, Anna, Mudrak, Oleg (2003) “*toku”, in Etymological dictionary of the Altaic languages (Handbuch der Orientalistik; VIII.8)‎[1], Leiden, New York, Köln: E.J. Brill
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