Reconstruction:Proto-Turkic/tikü

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

Reconstruction notes

Some of descendants point the stem *ti-.

Etymology

Derived from an unknwon unattested stem *ti-, also similar to Proto-Mongolic *te-re (“that”) and Proto-Tungusic *ta- (“that”) in this way. (Can this⁽⁺⁾ etymology be sourced?) Compare modern languages Mongolian тэр (ter) and Evenki тар (tar).

Pronoun

*tikü

that
Synonym: *ol (“he, she, it; that”)

Declension

Declension of Proto-Turkic/tikü

nominative	*tikü
accusative	*tiküni
genitive	*tiküniŋ
dative	*tiküke
instrumental	*tikün
locative	*tikünte
ablative	*tikünten

Descendants

Oghur:
- Chuvash:
Common Turkic:

Oghuz:
- West Oghuz:
  - Gagauz: te bu (“this there”), te o (“that there”)
- East Oghuz:
  - Salar: düğü, tüü
  - Turkmen: şütki, şütüki, bitiki
Kipchak:
- Old Kipchak: [script needed] (tigi)
  - North Kipchak:
    - Bashkir: теге (tege)
  - South Kipchak:
    - Kazakh: [script needed] (tigi) (dialectal)
    - Kyrgyz-Kipchak:
      - Kyrgyz: тиги (tigi)
      - Southern Altai: тиги (tigi), ту (tu)
Siberian:
- North Siberian:
  - Dolgan: ити (iti)
  - Yakut: ити (iti)
- South Siberian:
  - Sayan:
    - Tofa: тээ (tee)
    - Tuvan: дөө (döö)
  - Yeniseian:
    - Khakas: теге (tege, “so, thus”)

References

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

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