Reconstruction:Proto-Turkic/borsuk

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 reconstructions

*borsmuk

Reconstruction

Reflexes of /-m-/ in Siberian languages may be due to the nasal in the suffix.

Noun

*borsuk

badger

Declension

Declension of *borsuk

	Singular ³⁾
Nominative	*borsuk
Accusative	borsuknu, borsuknug ¹⁾
Genitive	*borsuknuŋ
Dative	*borsukka
Locative	*borsukda
Ablative	*borsukdan
Instrumental ²⁾	*borsukun
Equative ²⁾	*borsukča

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: пурӑш (purăš)
Common Turkic: *borsuk, *borsmuk

Oghuz:
- Proto-Oghuz: *borsuk
  - Old Anatolian Turkish:
    - Azerbaijani: porsuq
    - Ottoman Turkish: پورصوق‎ (porsuk), پورصق‎ (porsuk), پورسوق‎ (porsuk), پورسق‎ (porsuk), بورصوق‎ (porsuk, borsuk, bursuk), بورصق‎ (porsuk, borsuk, bursuk), بورسوق‎ (porsuk, borsuk, bursuk), بورسق‎ (porsuk, borsuk, bursuk)
      - Turkish: porsuk
      - → Armenian: փորսուղ (pʿorsuł)
      - → Bulgarian: борсу̀к (borsùk), бърсу̀к (bǎrsùk)
      - → Lithuanian: barsukas
      - → Macedonian: бурсук (bursuk)
      - → Romanian: bursuc
      - → Ukrainian: борсу́к (borsúk)
        → Polish: borsuk
  - Turkmen: torsuk
Karluk:
- Karakhanid: بُرْسْمُقْ‎ (borsmuq)
  - Khorezmian Turkic:
    - Chagatai: بورسوق‎ (borsuq)
      - Uzbek: bo'rsiq
      - Uyghur: بورسۇق‎ (borsuq)
Kipchak:
- Kipchak: بورسق‎ (borsuq)
  - North Kipchak:
    - Bashkir: бурһыҡ (burhıq)
    - Tatar: бурсык (bursıq), bursık
  - West Kipchak:
    - Karachay-Balkar: борсукъ (borsuq)
    - Kumyk: порсукъ (porsuq)
  - South Kipchak:
    - Kazakh: борсық (borsyq)
  - East Kipchak:
    - Kyrgyz: борсук (borsuk)
    - Southern Altai: борсык (borsïk)
Siberian:
- Old Turkic: [script needed] (borsmuk)
- North Siberian:
  - Yakut: барсук (barsuk)
- South Siberian:
  - Sayan:
    - Tofa: борсуӄ (borsuq)
    - Tuvan: морзук (morzuk)
  - Yenisei:
    - Khakas: порсых (porsıx)
→ Russian: барсук (barsuk)
→ Hungarian: borz

References

Clauson, Gerard (1972) An Etymological Dictionary of pre-thirteenth-century Turkish, Oxford: Clarendon Press, page 369
Doerfer, Gerhard (1965) Türkische und mongolische Elemente im Neupersischen [Turkic and Mongolian Elements in New Persian] (Akademie der Wissenschaften und der Literatur: Veröffentlichungen der Orientalischen Kommission; 19)‎ (in German), volume II, Wiesbaden: Franz Steiner Verlag, page 284
Starostin, Sergei; Dybo, Anna; Mudrak, Oleg (2003), “*borsuk, *borsmuk”, in Etymological dictionary of the Altaic languages (Handbuch der Orientalistik; VIII.8), Leiden, New York, Köln: E.J. Brill

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