Reconstruction:Proto-Turkic/kïŕ

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 *kï̄ŕ- (“to be red”). The root is not directly attested, therefore the meaning is obscure. However compare Proto-Turkic *kï̄r (“grey”) (Turkish kır (“grey”)), Proto-Mongolic *küri (“brown”) (cf. Mongolian хүрэн (xüren, “brown”)), Proto-Tungusic *xuri- (“grey”) (cf. Evenki урим (urim, “grey”)). (Can this⁽⁺⁾ etymology be sourced?)

Adjective

*kïŕ

1. hot

Descendants

• Siberian:
  • Old Uyghur: [script needed] (kız, “hot”)
• ⇒ Proto-Turkic: *kïŕïl (“red”)
  • Turkmen: gyzyl
  • Yakut: кыһыл (kıhıl)
  • ⇒ Proto-Turkic: *kïŕ-ar- (“to become red”)
    • Karakhanid: قِزَرْماقْ (qïzarmāq)
    • Bashkir: ҡыҙарыу (qıźarıw)
    • Turkmen: gyzarmak
    • Yakut: кытар (kıtar)

References

• Clauson, Gerard (1972) “kızar-”, in An Etymological Dictionary of pre-thirteenth-century Turkish, Oxford: Clarendon Press, page 685
• Starostin, Sergei, Dybo, Anna, Mudrak, Oleg (2003) “*k`i̯ū́ŕu”, in Etymological dictionary of the Altaic languages (Handbuch der Orientalistik; VIII.8), Leiden, New York, Köln: E.J. Brill