Reconstruction:Proto-Turkic/ạbuč

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

Etymology

Akin to Proto-Mongolic *abuca (“taking, handful”), from Proto-Mongolic *ab- (“to take”). Compare to Proto-Tungusic *abgu- (“to pull out, take from”). (Can this⁽⁺⁾ etymology be sourced?)

Noun

*ạbuč

1. handful

Declension

Declension of *ạbuč

	Singular 3)
Nominative	*ạbuč
Accusative	*ạbučnï, *ạbučug 4), *ạbučnïg 1)
Genitive	*ạbučnïŋ
Dative	*ạbučka
Locative	*ạbučda
Ablative	*ạbučdan
Allative	*ạbučgaru
Instrumental 2)	*ạbučun
Equative 2)	*ạbučča
Similative 2)	*ạbučlayu
Comitative 2)	*ạbučlugu

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: ывӑҫ (yvăś)
• Common Turkic:

• Oghuz:
  • Old Anatolian Turkish:
    • Azerbaijani: ovuc
    • Ottoman Turkish: آووچ (avuç)
      • Turkish: avuç
      • Gagauz: auç
  • Salar: uc
  • Turkmen: owuç
• Karluk:
  • Karakhanid: [script needed] (avut)
    • Khorezmian Turkic: [script needed] (avuč)
      • Chagatai: [script needed] (owuč)
        • Uzbek: hovuch
• Kipchak:
  • Kipchak: [script needed] (awut)
  • Mamluk-Kipchak: [Arabic needed] (awuč)
  • West Kipchak:
    • Crimean Tatar: avuç
    • Karachay-Balkar: уууч (uuuç)
    • Karaim: avuč ,uvuč
    • Kumyk: увуч (uwuç)
  • North Kipchak:
    • Bashkir: ус (us),
    • Tatar: уч (uç)
  • South Kipchak:
    • Caspian:
      • Kazakh: уыс (uys)
      • Karakalpak: uwıs
      • Nogai: увыс (uvıs)
    • Kyrgyz-Kipchak:
      • Kyrgyz: ууч (uuc)
      • Southern Altai: ууш (uuš)
• Siberian:
  • Old Turkic:
  • Old Uyghur: ʾʾdwt (adut), ʾʾβwt (avut), ʾʾdwtčʾ (adutča)
    • Western Yugur: [script needed] (oš)
  • South Siberian:
    • Sayan:
      • Tofa: оъш (o"š)
    • Yenisei:
      • Khakas: оос (oos)
      • Shor: ош

References

• Starostin, Sergei, Dybo, Anna, Mudrak, Oleg (2003) Etymological dictionary of the Altaic languages (Handbuch der Orientalistik; VIII.8), Leiden, New York, Köln: E.J. Brill