Reconstruction:Proto-Turkic/čeček

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

Noun

*čeček

1. flower
2. chicken-pox

Declension

Declension of *čeček

	Singular 3)
Nominative	*čeček
Accusative	*čečekni, *čečekig 4), *čečeknig 1)
Genitive	*čečekniŋ
Dative	*čečekke
Locative	*čečekde
Ablative	*čečekden
Allative	*čečekgerü
Instrumental 2)	*čečekin
Equative 2)	*čečekče
Similative 2)	*čečekleyü
Comitative 2)	*čečekligü

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

• Oghur：
  • Chuvash: ҫеҫке (śeśke)
    • → Udmurt: сяська (śaśka)
    • → Erzya: цеця (ćeća)
    • → Bashkir: сәскә (səskə)
  • Khazar: [script needed] (čičäk) (“a female name”, see Tzitzak) (Classification disputed)
• Common Turkic：

• Oghuz：
  • Old Anatolian Turkish:
    • Azerbaijani: çiçək
    • Ottoman Turkish: چیچك, چچك (çiçek)
      • Turkish: çiçek
      • → Armenian: չիչէկ (čʻičʻēk), չիչակ (čʻičʻak), չիչա̈գ^յ (čʻičʻäg^y)
      • → Czech: šišák
      • → German: Zischägge
        • → English: zischägge
      • → Serbo-Croatian:

        Cyrillic script: чи́чак

        Latin script: číčak

  • Salar: çiçek
• Karluk:
  • Karakhanid: [script needed] (čeček)
    • Uzbek: chechak
    • Uyghur: چېچەك (chëchek)
• Kipchak:
  • North Kipchak:
    • Bashkir: сәсәк (səsək, “smallpox”)
    • Tatar: чәчәк (çäçäk)
      • → Chuvash: чечек (čeč̬ek)
  • West Kipchak:
    • Crimean Tatar: çiçek
    • Kumyk: чечек (çeçek)
    • Karachay-Balkar: [script needed] (çeçek, çiçek)
    • Karaim: [script needed] (çeçek)
  • South Kipchak:
    • Caspian:
      • Karakalpak: sheshek
      • Kazakh: шешек (şeşek, “chicken-pox”), желшешек (jelşeşek)
      • Nogai: шешек (şeşek), шешекей (şeşekey)
    • East Kipchak:
      • Kyrgyz: чечек (cecek)
      • Southern Altai: чечек (čeček)
• Siberian:
  • Old Uyghur: [script needed] (čeček)
    • Western Yugur: [script needed] (č́`uǯ́ug)
  • North Siberian:
    • Yakut: чэчик (cecik)
  • South Siberian:
    • Sayan:
      • Tuvan: чечек (çeçek)
    • Yenisei:
      • Shor: чайақ
      • Khakas: чахаях (çaxayax)
    • Northern Altai: чеджек (čedžek)
• → Proto-Mongolic: *ceceg
  • Mongolian: цэцэг (ceceg)
  • Dongxiang: chizhe
• → Chechen: зезаг (zezag)

References

• [1]
• Starostin, Sergei, Dybo, Anna, Mudrak, Oleg (2003) “*dum”, in Etymological dictionary of the Altaic languages (Handbuch der Orientalistik; VIII.8), Leiden, New York, Köln: E.J. Brill
• [2]