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

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Etymology

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The stem *uk (kin, tribe) (also written uq-, oq-) has often been connected with oq "arrow".[1]

Noun

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*ok

  1. arrow

Declension

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Descendants

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  • Oghur:
    • Chuvash: ухӑ (uh̬ă)
  • Common Turkic:
  • Oghuz:
    • Old Anatolian Turkish:
      • Azerbaijani: ox
      • Ottoman Turkish: اوق
        • Turkish: ok
        • Gagauz: ok
    • Turkmen: ok
    • Salar: oq
  • Karluk:
    • Karakhanid: [script needed] (oq)
  • Kypchak:
    • North Kipchak:
    • West Kipchak:
      • Crimean Tatar: oq
      • Kumyk: окъ (oq)
      • Karachay-Balkar: [script needed] (oq)
      • Karaim: [script needed] (oq)
    • South Kipchak:
      • Caspian:
      • Kyrgyz–Kipchak:
        • Kyrgyz: ок (ok)
        • Southern Altai: ок (ok)
  • Siberian:
    • Yenisei Kyrgyz: 𐰹 (/⁠ok⁠/)
    • Old Turkic: 𐰸 (q̊¹ /⁠ok⁠/)
    • Old Uyghur: [script needed] (ok)
      • Western Yugur: [script needed] (ok)
    • North Siberian:
    • South Siberian:
      • Sayan:
        • Tuvan: [script needed] (o'q)
      • Yenisei:
        • Khakas: ух (ux)
        • Shor: [script needed] (oq)[2]

References

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  1. ^ Starostin, Sergei, Dybo, Anna, Mudrak, Oleg (2003) “*uk”, in Etymological dictionary of the Altaic languages (Handbuch der Orientalistik; VIII.8)‎[1], Leiden, New York, Köln: E.J. Brill, citing VEWT 511, ЭСТЯ 1, 582-583, Егоров 76. Starostin thought the connection with "arrow" was made "erroneously".
  2. ^ [2]

Coordinate terms

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