Reconstruction:Proto-Turkic/yapagu

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

From Proto-Turkic *yap or *yapa.

Noun

*yapagu

fleece

Declension

Declension of *yapagu
	singular ³⁾
nominative	*yapagu
accusative	yapagug, yapagunï¹⁾
genitive	*yapagunïŋ
dative	*yapaguka
locative	*yapaguda
ablative	*yapagudan
allative	*yapagugaru
instrumental ²⁾	*yapagun
equative ²⁾	*yapaguča
similative ²⁾	*yapagulayu
comitative ²⁾	*yapagulïgu

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

*yapgut

Related terms

*yapalak (“owl”)

Descendants

→ Proto-Mongolic: *daxaki
Oghur:
- Proto-Bulgar:
  - → Hungarian: gyapjú
Proto-Common Turkic:

Oghuz: يَپَاغُو (yapağu)
- Proto-Oghuz:
  - Old Anatolian Turkish: یاپاغی
    - Azerbaijani: yapaq
    - Gagauz: yapaa
    - Ottoman Turkish: یاپاغی (yapağı), یاپق (yapak), یپاغی (yapağı), یپاق (yapak)
      - Turkish: yapağı
      - → Armenian: յափաղի (yapʻaġi)
  - Turkmen: ýapagy
Karluk:
- Karakhanid: يَبَاقُو (yapaqu)
Kipchak:
- North Kipchak:
  - Bashkir: ябаға (yabağa)
  - Tatar: ябага (yabağa)
- Kipchak-Cuman:
  - Cuman: yabogi
    - Mamluk-Kipchak: [script needed] (yapaq)
    - Karachay-Balkar: [script needed] (jabağı)
    - Karaim: [script needed] (yabağa)
    - Kumyk: [script needed] (yabağı)
- South Kipchak:
  - Caspian:
    - Karakalpak: jabağı
    - Kazakh: жабағы (jabağy)
    - Nogai: [script needed] (yabağı)
  - Kyrgyz-Kipchak:
    - Kyrgyz: жабага (jabaga)
    - Southern Altai: јабак (ǰabak)
Siberian:
- Old Uyghur: yapaqu

References

Starostin, Sergei, Dybo, Anna, Mudrak, Oleg (2003) Etymological dictionary of the Altaic languages (Handbuch der Orientalistik; VIII.8), Leiden, New York, Köln: E.J. Brill
Anetshofer, H. (2022). Türkçe yapağı, yapalak, ve lapa lapa (kar yağmak) sözcükleri nasıl ortak bir kökene dayanıyor?. Zemin, (3), 24–47. [1]