Reconstruction:Proto-Turkic/-inči

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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

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preceding vowel
A / Ï E / I O / U Ö / Ü
*-ïnčï *-inči *-unču *-ünčü

Etymology

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The second vowel of the suffix seems to appear after the medieval era. For an unknown reason, the word *ẹk(k)inti (second) has an exclusive variant *-inti, however according to Erdal it may be a seperate suffix.[1]

Has been compared to Manchu ᠊ᠴᡳ (-ci). [2]

Suffix

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*-inči or *-inč

  1. Forms ordinals of numerals
    *bīr (one) + ‎*-inči → ‎*bīrinči (first)

Derived terms

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  • *-rer (suffix creating distributive of numbers)
  • *-egü (suffix creating collective of numbers)

Descendants

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  • Oghur:
    • Bulgar: (-şi), [script needed] ()
  • Common Turkic: *-m-inči
  • Common Turkic: *-inči
  • Arghu:
  • Oghuz:
    • Old Anatolian Turkish:
      • Azerbaijani: -inci
      • Ottoman Turkish:
    • Turkmen: -inji
  • Karluk:
  • Kipchak:
  • Siberian:
    • Old Turkic: 𐰨 (-nč)
    • South Siberian:
      • Yenisei:
      • Sayan:
        • Tuvan:
        • Tofa:
    • North Siberian:

References

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  1. ^ Erdal, Marcel (2004) A Grammar of Old Turkic (Handbook of Oriental Studies. Section 8 Uralic & Central Asian Studies; 3), Brill Academic Publishers, →ISBN, page 223
  2. ^ Yamazaki, Masato (1991) "On the Ordinal Suffixes of Altaic Languages", Tohoku University: Department of Japanese Studies, pages 132-144
  • Clauson, Gerard (1972) “”, in An Etymological Dictionary of pre-thirteenth-century Turkish, Oxford: Clarendon Press, page xli