Reconstruction:Proto-Turkic/burgu

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 *bur- (“to bend”) +‎ *-gu. Compared to Proto-Mongolic *bürijen (“trumpet, trumpet horn”). (Can this⁽⁺⁾ etymology be sourced?)

Noun

*burgu

trumpet
pipe (of a plant)
horn

Declension

Declension of *burgu

	Singular ³⁾
Nominative	*burgu
Accusative	burgunu, burgunug ¹⁾
Genitive	*burgunuŋ
Dative	*burguka
Locative	*burguda
Ablative	*burgudan
Instrumental ²⁾	*burgun
Equative ²⁾	*burguča

¹⁾ Found in early Proto-Turkic.
²⁾ The original instrumental and equative cases have fallen into disuse in many Turkic languages.
³⁾ Plurality is disputed in Proto-Turkic. See also the notes on the Proto-Turkic/Locative-ablative case and plurality page in Wikibooks.

Descendants

Oghur:
- Chuvash: пӑрӑх (părăh)
Common Turkic:

Oghuz:
- Proto-Oghuz: *borɣu
  - Old Anatolian Turkish:
    - Azerbaijani: boru
    - Ottoman Turkish: بورو‎ (boru)
      - Turkish: boru
Karluk:
- Karakhanid:
  - Khorezmian Turkic:
    - Chagatai:
      - Uzbek: moʻri, burgʻu
      - Uyghur: بۇرغا‎ (burgha)
Kipchak:
- Kipchak:
  - North Kipchak:
    - Bashkir: борғо (borğo)
  - East Kipchak:
    - Southern Altai: буру (buru, “guilt”)
Siberian:
- Old Turkic: [script needed] (burğu)
- South Siberian:
  - Sayan:
    - Tuvan: мурғу (“pipe made of a plant stem”)
  - Yenisei:
    - Khakas: пырғы (pırğı, “hunting horn”)

References

Starostin, Sergei; Dybo, Anna; Mudrak, Oleg (2003), “*burgu”, in Etymological dictionary of the Altaic languages (Handbuch der Orientalistik; VIII.8), Leiden, New York, Köln: E.J. Brill
Clauson, Gerard (1972) An Etymological Dictionary of pre-thirteenth-century Turkish, Oxford: Clarendon Press, page 361

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