Reconstruction:Proto-Turkic/top
Proto-Turkic
Etymology
Compare Proto-Mongolic *toburugu (“round, convex”). (Can this(+) etymology be sourced?)
Noun
*top
Declension
singular 3) | |
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nominative | *top |
accusative | *topug, *topnï1) |
genitive | *topnuŋ |
dative | *topka |
locative | *topda |
ablative | *topdan |
allative | *topgaru |
instrumental 2) | *topun |
equative 2) | *topča |
similative 2) | *toplayu |
comitative 2) | *toplugu |
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.
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-Mongolic: *toburugu
- Oghur:
- Chuvash: тупӑ (tup̬ă, “ball, cannonball”)
- Arghu:
- Khalaj: top
- Oghuz:
- Old Anatolian Turkish:
- Azerbaijani: top
- Ottoman Turkish: طوپ
- Gagauz: top
- Turkmen: top
- Old Anatolian Turkish:
- Karluk:
- Karakhanid: [script needed] (top)
- Uzbek: to‘p
- Uyghur: توپ (top)
- Karakhanid: [script needed] (top)
- Kipchak:
References
- Starostin, Sergei, Dybo, Anna, Mudrak, Oleg (2003) “*top”, in Etymological dictionary of the Altaic languages (Handbuch der Orientalistik; VIII.8), Leiden, New York, Köln: E.J. Brill