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Reconstruction:Proto-Turkic/küŕen

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

Akin to Proto-Mongolic *kürene (“ferret, weasel”), Proto-Tungusic *xur- (“bear; gopher; bear's flesh (as food); young tarbagan”). (Can this(+) etymology be sourced?)

Noun

*küŕen

  1. ferret, weasel
    Synonyms: *argun (“a kind of weasel”), *tok- (“weasel”)

Declension
Declension of *küŕen
Singular 3)
Nominative *küŕen
Accusative *küŕenni, *küŕennig 1)
Genitive *küŕenniŋ
Dative *küŕenke
Locative *küŕente
Ablative *küŕenten
Instrumental 2) *küŕenin
Equative 2) *küŕenče
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:
    • → Hungarian: görény
    • →? Proto-Mongolic: *kürene
      • Native Script Mongolian: ᠬᠥ᠊᠊ᠷ᠊ᠢ᠊᠊ᠨ
        ᠬᠥ᠊᠊ᠷ‍ᠠ‍‍ᠠ‍᠊ᠢ᠊ᠡ᠋
      • Mongolian: хүрэн (xüren)
  • Common Turkic: *küzen
  • Oghuz:
    • East Oghuz:
      • ⇒ Turkmen: alajgözen
  • Kipchak:
    • → Nor Nakhichevan Armenian: գյուջեն (gyuǰen), գուջեն (guǰen)
    • West Kipchak:
      • Kumyk: гёзен (gözen)
    • North Kipchak:
    • South Kipchak:
      • Karakalpak: [script needed] (güzen)
      • Kazakh: күзэн (küzén), сасық күзен (sasyq küzen)
    • Kyrgyz-Kipchak:
  • Siberian:
    • South Siberian:
      • Yeniseian:
      • Sayan:
        • Tuvan: күзэн (küzen, “Siberian polecat”)

References
  • Starostin, Sergei; Dybo, Anna; Mudrak, Oleg (2003), “küŕen”, 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 761
  • Räsänen, Martti (1969) Versuch eines etymologischen Wörterbuchs der Türksprachen (in German), Helsinki: Suomalais-ugrilainen seura, page 312
  • Levitskaja, L. S.; Dybo, A. V.; Rassadin, V. I. (1997) Etimologičeskij slovarʹ tjurkskix jazykov [Etymological Dictionary of Turkic Languages]‎ (in Russian), volume 5, Moscow: Jazyki russkoj kulʹtury, page 86
  • Tenišev E. R., editor (1984–2006) Sravnitelʹno-istoričeskaja grammatika tjurkskix jazykov: [Comparative Historical Grammar of Turkic Languages:] (in Russian), Moscow: Nauka, page 163
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