Reconstruction:Proto-Turkic/tabïĺgan

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

*tabïĺgan.

Etymology

From *tabïĺ- (“to run”) +‎ *-gan. Akin to Proto-Mongolic *taxulai (“rabbit”) and Khitan 匋裏 (taul, “rabbit”). (Can this⁽⁺⁾ etymology be sourced?)

Noun

*tabïĺgan

1. hare

   Synonym: *kodan

Declension

Declension of *tabïĺgan

	Singular 3)
Nominative	*tabïĺgan
Accusative	*tabïĺgannï, *tabïĺganïg 4), *tabïĺgannïg 1)
Genitive	*tabïĺgannïŋ
Dative	*tabïĺganka
Locative	*tabïĺganta
Ablative	*tabïĺgantan
Allative	*tabïĺgangaru
Instrumental 2)	*tabïĺganïn
Equative 2)	*tabïĺganča
Similative 2)	*tabïĺganlayu
Comitative 2)	*tabïĺganlïgu

¹⁾ Possibly in Pre-Proto-Turkic.
²⁾ The original instrumental, equative, similative & comitative cases have fallen into disuse in many modern 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.
⁴⁾ Found in the Old Turkic era.

Descendants

• Karakhanid: تَڤِشْغانْ (tavïšɣān)
• Old Turkic
  • Old Turkic: 𐱃𐰉𐰽𐰍𐰣 (t¹b¹s¹ǧn¹ /⁠tabïšɣan⁠/)
  • Old Uyghur: [script needed] (tʾβyšγʾn /⁠tavïšɣan⁠/)
• Arghu
  • Khalaj: tavuşğân
• Oghuz
  • Azerbaijani: dovşan
  • Ottoman Turkish: طاوشان (tavşan)
    • Turkish: tavşan
  • Salar: tōšen, dovşan
  • Turkmen: towşan
• Kipchak
  • Mamluk-Kipchak: [Arabic needed] (ṭawšan)
  • West Kipchak
    • Kumyk: тавшан (tawşan)
  • South Kipchak
    • Caspian
      • Nogai тавшан (tavşan)
• Karluk
  • Chagatai: تاووشقان (tawušqan)
    • Uzbek: tovushqon
    • Uyghur: توشقان (toshqan)
• Siberian
  • North Siberian
    • Yakut: табысхан (tabısqan)
  • South Siberian
    • Western Yugur: tusqan
    • Yenisei Turkic
      • Khakas: табысхан (tabısxan)
• ?→ Khitan: 匋裏 (taul)
  • ?→ Mongolic: *taxulai
    • Mongolian: туулай (tuulaj)

Further reading

• Clauson, Gerard (1972) “tavışğa:n”, in An Etymological Dictionary of pre-thirteenth-century Turkish, Oxford: Clarendon Press, page 447
• Starostin, Sergei, Dybo, Anna, Mudrak, Oleg (2003) “*tabɨĺgan”, in Etymological dictionary of the Altaic languages (Handbuch der Orientalistik; VIII.8), Leiden, New York, Köln: E.J. Brill