Reconstruction:Proto-Turkic/emgekle-

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

From *emgek (“bother, worry, pains”) +‎ *-le.

Verb

*emgekle-

1. (intransitive) to labor

Related terms

• *em-
• *emig-
• *emge-
• *emgen-
• *emgek

Descendants

• Common Turkic:

• Proto-Oghuz:
  • Old Anatolian Turkish:
    • Ottoman Turkish: [script needed] (emekle-)
      • Turkish: emeklemek (“to crawl”)
  • Salar: ömüklegüsi
• Karluk:
  • Karakhanid: [script needed] (emgeklenmek)
    • Chagatai: [script needed] (emgekle-)
      • Uyghur: [script needed] (ömilimek)
• Kipchak: [script needed] (emgekle-)
  • North Kipchak:
    • Tatar: имгәкләргә (imgäklärgä)
  • South Kipchak:
    • Caspian:
      • Kazakh: еңбектеу (eñbekteu)
    • Kyrgyz-Kipchak:
      • Kyrgyz: эмгектөө (emgektöö)
• Siberian:
  • Old Uyghur: [script needed] (ömgekle-)

References

• Clauson, Gerard (1972) “”, in An Etymological Dictionary of pre-thirteenth-century Turkish, Oxford: Clarendon Press, page 160