Reconstruction:Proto-Turkic/börük

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

Alternative forms

• *bürük

Etymology

From *börü- +‎ *-ük. The vowel in the suffix disappeared early in most languages..

Noun

*börük

1. (Common Turkic) hat, cap

Declension

Declension of *börük (Common Turkic)

	singular	plural2)
nominative	*börük	*börükler
accusative
genitive	*börükniŋ	*börüklerniŋ
dative	*börükke	*börüklerke
locative	*börükte	*börüklerde
ablative	*börükten	*börüklerden
instrumental1)		*börüklerin
equative1)	*börükče	*börüklerče

¹⁾The original instrumental and equative cases have fallen into disuse in many Common Turkic languages.
²⁾This plural suffix is used only on Common Turkic, and not in Oghur. See also the notes on the Proto-Turkic/Locative-ablative case and plurality page on Wikibooks.

Descendants

• →? Proto-Mongolic: *bürkü- (“to cover”)
• ⇒ Common Turkic: *börükgek
  • Arghu:
    • Khalaj: bürgək

• Arghu:
  • Khalaj: bö̂rk
• Oghuz:
  • Old Anatolian Turkish:
    • Azerbaijani: börk
    • Ottoman Turkish: بورك (börk)
      • Turkish: börk
  • Turkmen: bȫrik
• Karluk:
  • Karakhanid: بُرْكْ (börk)
    • Chagatai:
      • Uzbek: burk
      • Uyghur: بۆك (bök), (obsolete) بۆرك (börk)
• Kipchak:
  • West Kipchak:
    • Kumyk: бёрк (börk)
    • Karachay-Balkar: бёрк (börk)
    • Karaim: [script needed] (bärik), [script needed] (b'ork)
  • North Kipchak:
    • Bashkir: бүрек (bürek)
    • Tatar: бүрек (bürek)
  • South Kipchak:
    • Caspian:
      • Kazakh: бөрік (börık)
      • Karakalpak: börik
      • Nogai: боьрк (börk)
    • Kyrgyz-Kipchak:
      • Kyrgyz: бөрүк (börük)
      • Southern Altai: бӧрӱк (börük)
• Siberian:
  • Old Uyghur: [script needed] (börk)
  • North Siberian:
    • Yakut: бэргэһэ (bergehe)
    • Dolgan: бэргэһэ
  • South Siberian:
    • Sayan:
      • Tuvan: бөрт (bört)
      • Soyot: бөърт (bö̀rt)
      • Tofa: [script needed] (bö'rt)
    • Yenisei:
      • Shor: пӧрӱк (pörük)
      • Western Yugur: [script needed] (perik)
      • Khakas: пӧрік

Further reading

• Clauson, Gerard (1972) “”, in An Etymological Dictionary of pre-thirteenth-century Turkish, Oxford: Clarendon Press, page 362
• Räsänen, Martti (1969) Versuch eines etymologischen Wörterbuchs der Türksprachen (in German), Helsinki: Suomalais-ugrilainen seura, page 84
• 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 II, Wiesbaden: Franz Steiner Verlag, page 289
• Tenišev E. R., editor (1984–2006), Sravnitelʹno-istoričeskaja grammatika tjurkskix jazykov: [Comparative Historical Grammar of Turkic Languages:] (in Russian), Moscow: Nauka, page 482