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Reconstruction:Proto-Turkic/čok

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

Alternative reconstruction
  • *čōk

Etymology

Only Gagauz and Turkish point to a long vowel.[1]

Adjective

*čok

  1. many, very
    Antonym: *āŕ (“few, a little”)
  2. group, crowd

Descendants
  • Oghuz:
    • Old Anatolian Turkish:
    • Turkmen: çok
  • Karluk:
    • ⇒ Karakhanid: [script needed] (çoqramaq)
  • Kipchak:
    • South Kipchak:
      • Caspian:
        • ⇒ Kazakh: шоғыр (şoğyr)
        • Nogai: [script needed] (šoq)
      • Kyrgyz-Kipchak:
        • Kyrgyz: чок (çoq)
        • ⇒ Southern Altai: чогулар (čogular)

References
  1. Starostin, Sergei; Dybo, Anna; Mudrak, Oleg (2003), “*čok”, in Etymological dictionary of the Altaic languages (Handbuch der Orientalistik; VIII.8), Leiden, New York, Köln: E.J. Brill
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