Reconstruction:Proto-Turkic/kab-

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

Compare Proto-Mongolic *kabi-. (Can this⁽⁺⁾ etymology be sourced?)

Verb

*kab-

1. (transitive) to unite, bring together
2. (transitive) to be brought together

Descendants

• ⇒ Proto-Turkic: *kab-ur- (“to unite, bring together”)

• Oghur:
  • Danube Bulgar:
    • → Bulgarian: Кубрат (Kubrat)
    • → Greek: Κοβρᾶτος (Kobrâtos)
• Oghuz:
  • Turkmen: gowurmak
• Karluk:
  • Karakhanid: [script needed] (qavur-)
• Kipchak:
  • South Kipchak:
    • Kyrgyz-Kipchak:
      • Southern Altai: [script needed] (qabïr-)
• Siberian:
  • Old Uyghur: [script needed] (qavïr-)
  • South Siberian:
    • Sayan:
      • Tuvan: [script needed] (xavïr-)
      • Tofa: [script needed] (xabïr-)

• ⇒ Proto-Turkic: *kab-ïĺč- (“to be brought together, to approach each other, reciprocative of *kab-”)

• Oghuz:
  • Old Anatolian Turkish:
    • Azerbaijani: govuşmaq
    • Ottoman Turkish:
      • Turkish: kavuşmak, kavşak
      • Gagauz: kauşmaa
  • Turkmen: gowuşmak
• Karluk:
  • Karakhanid: [script needed] (qawış-)
    • Uzbek: qowushmoq
    • Uyghur: [script needed] (qawış-) (dialect)
• Kipchak: [script needed] (qawuş-)
  • Kipchak: [script needed] (qawşut)
  • North Kipchak:
    • Bashkir: [script needed] (qawış-)
    • Tatar: [script needed] (qawış-)
  • West Kipchak:
    • Karaim: [script needed] (qawuş-)
  • South Kipchak:
    • Caspian:
      • Karakalpak: [script needed] (qawıs-)
      • Kazakh: қауысу (qauysu)
      • Nogai: [script needed] (qawış-)
    • Kyrgyz-Kipchak:
      • Kyrgyz: коошуу (kooşuu)
• Siberian:
  • Yenisei Kyrgyz: [script needed] (qavïš-)
  • Old Turkic: 𐰴𐰉𐰽 (qabïš-)
    • Old Uyghur: [script needed] (qavïš-)
      • Western Yugur: [script needed] (qawïs-)

• ⇒ Proto-Turkic: *kab-ït-
  • Old Uyghur: [script needed] (qavït-, “to come across”)
• →? Proto-Mongolic: *kabi-
  • ⇒ Proto-Mongolic: *kabi-ra- (“to touch, whet; to stand close to one another”)
    • Mongolian: хавирах (xavirax, “to grind, whet”)
  • ⇒ Proto-Mongolic: *kabi-ldu
    • Mongolian: хавилдуу (xavilduu, “close, nearby”)
  • Mongolian: хавьтах (xavʹtax, “to come up beside; to couple; to approach; to have a sexual intercourse”)

References

• Tekin, T. (1988). TÜRKÇE / ş /, ÇUVAŞÇA / ś / AND MOĞOLCA / ç /. Türk Dili Araştırmaları Yıllığı - Belleten, 34 (1986), 71-75. [1]
• Starostin, Sergei, Dybo, Anna, Mudrak, Oleg (2003) “*Kab-”, in Etymological dictionary of the Altaic languages (Handbuch der Orientalistik; VIII.8), Leiden, New York, Köln: E.J. Brill