Reconstruction:Proto-Turkic/bulït

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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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Reconstruction

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Unproblematic.

Etymology

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The *-t is hypothesised to be an ancient plural suffix by Doerfer.

Compared to Proto-Uralic *pilwe (cloud) and Proto-Tungusic *bol- (autumn, air) by some sources. (Can this(+) etymology be sourced?)

Noun

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*bulït

  1. cloud

Declension

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Descendants

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  • Oghur:
    • Chuvash: пӗлӗт (pĕlĕt)
  • Common Turkic: *bulït

References

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  • Clauson, Gerard (1972) “bulıt”, in An Etymological Dictionary of pre-thirteenth-century Turkish, Oxford: Clarendon Press, page 333
  • 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)‎[1] (in German), volume 2, Wiesbaden: Franz Steiner Verlag, page 771
  • Räsänen, Martti (1969) Versuch eines etymologischen Wörterbuchs der Türksprachen (in German), Helsinki: Suomalais-ugrilainen seura, page 88
  • Sevortjan, E. V. (1978) Etimologičeskij slovarʹ tjurkskix jazykov [Etymological Dictionary of Turkic Languages] (in Russian), volume 2, Moscow: Nauka, pages 262-264
  • Tenišev E. R., editor (2001), Sravnitelʹno-istoričeskaja grammatika tjurkskix jazykov: Leksika [Comparative Historical Grammar of Turkic Languages: Lexis] (in Russian), volume 4, Moscow: Nauka, page 24
  • Starostin, Sergei, Dybo, Anna, Mudrak, Oleg (2003) “*bŭlu ( ~ -a, -o)”, in Etymological dictionary of the Altaic languages (Handbuch der Orientalistik; VIII.8), Leiden, New York, Köln: E.J. Brill