Reconstruction:Proto-Turkic/-mek

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

preceding vowel
A / Ï / O / U	E / I / Ö / Ü
*-mak	*-mek

Etymology

Comparable to Proto-Mongolic *-meg.

Suffix

*-mek

1. Forms deverbal nouns and infinitives of verbs.

   ‎*īl- (“to catch”) + ‎*-mek → ‎*īlmek (“to catch; hook”)

Derived terms

Proto-Turkic terms suffixed with *-mek

Descendants

• Oghur:
  • Chuvash: -мак (-mak), -мек (-mek), -мах (-mah); -машкӑн (-maškăn), -мешкӗн (-meškĕn) (< *-макшӑн < *-mak üčün)
• Common Turkic:

• Arghu:
  • Khalaj: -mək
• Oghuz:
  • Old Anatolian Turkish:
    • Azerbaijani: -mək
    • Ottoman Turkish: ـمك (-mek)
      • Turkish: -mek (also -me)
      • Gagauz: -mää
      • → Crimean Tatar: -mek
      • →? Tatar: -мек (-mek)
  • Salar: -me
  • Turkmen: -mek
• Karluk:
  • Karakhanid: -ماكْ (-mēk)
    • Chagatai: [script needed] (-mek)
      • Uzbek: -moq
      • Uyghur: -مەك (-mek)
• Kipchak:
  • West Kipchak:
    • Kumyk: -мек (-mek)
    • Karachay-Balkar:
    • Karaim:
  • North Kipchak:
    • Bashkir: -мәк (-mək)
  • South Kipchak:
    • Caspian:
      • Kazakh: -мек (-mek)
      • Karakalpak: -maq
    • Kyrgyz-Kipchak:
      • Kyrgyz: -мек (-mek)
      • Southern Altai: -мек (-mek)
• Siberian:
  • Old Turkic:
    • Old Turkic: 𐰢𐰚 (mk) (as in 𐰺𐰢𐰴𐰲𐰃𐰾𐰃𐰤 (armaqçısın))
  • North Siberian:
    • Yakut: -мэх (-meq), -мах (-maq), -мөх (-möq), -мох (-moq), -бэх (-beq), -бах (-baq), -бөх (-böq), -бох (-boq), -пэх (-peq), -пах (-paq), -пөх (-pöq), -пох (-poq)

References

• Clauson, Gerard (1972) “”, in An Etymological Dictionary of pre-thirteenth-century Turkish, Oxford: Clarendon Press, page xliv
• Erdal, Marcel (2004) “+mAk”, in A Grammar of Old Turkic (Handbook of Oriental Studies. Section 8 Uralic & Central Asian Studies; 3), Brill Academic Publishers, →ISBN, page 279
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “+(A)mAk”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Tekin, Talât (1968) A Grammar of Orkhon Turkic (Uralic and Altaic Series; 69), Bloomington: Indiana University, →ISBN, page 114