Reconstruction:Proto-Turkic/kïŕïl

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

Reconstruction notes

The Chuvash form points to the front-ablauted variant *kiŕil.

Etymology

From *kï̄ŕ- (“to redden”) with secondary shortening or from the homophonous word *kï̄ŕ with similar development found in *yāĺïl (“green”) < *yāĺ (“young vegetables”).

Adjective

*kïŕïl

1. red

Descendants

• Oghur:
  • Chuvash: хӗрлӗ (hĕrlĕ)
• Common Turkic:

• Aghu:
  • Khalaj: qızıl
• Oghuz:
  • Old Anatolian Turkish:
    • Azerbaijani: qızıl
    • Ottoman Turkish: قزل (qızıl)
      • Gagauz: kızıl
      • Turkish: kızıl
  • Salar: gızıl, gızil
  • Turkmen: gyzyl
• Karluk:
  • Karakhanid: [script needed] (qïzïl)
    • Khorezmian Turkic: [script needed] (qızıl)
      • Chagatai: قزل (qizil)
        • Uzbek: qizil
        • Uyghur: قىزىل (qizil)
• Kipchak: قزل (qızıl)
  • West Kipchak:
    • Crimean Tatar: qızıl
    • Karachay-Balkar: къызыл (qızıl)
    • Karaim: qızıl
    • Kumyk: къызыл (qızıl)
  • North Kipchak:
    • Bashkir: ҡыҙыл (qıźıl)
    • Tatar: кызыл (qızıl)
  • South Kipchak:
    • Caspian:
      • Kazakh: қызыл (qyzyl)
      • Karakalpak: qızıl
      • Nogai кызыл (kızıl)
    • Kyrgyz-Kipchak:
      • Kyrgyz: кызыл (kızıl)
      • Southern Altai: кызыл (kïzïl)
• Siberian:
  • Old Turkic:
    • Old Uyghur: [script needed] (qïzïl)
      • Western Yugur: [script needed] (qïzïl)
  • North Siberian:
    • Dolgan: кыһыл
    • Yakut: кыһыл (kıhıl)
  • South Siberian
    • Sayan Turkic:
      • Tuvan: кызыл (kızıl)
      • Tofa: ӄызыл (qïzïl)
    • Yenisei Turkic:
      • Chulym: қызыл (qïzïl)
      • Khakas: хызыл (xızıl)
      • Shor: қызыл
    • Northern Altai: кысыл (kïsïl), кызыл (kïzïl)

See also

Colors in Proto-Turkic · *boduglar, *bodugsāyïn (layout · text)

*āk, *ürüŋ	*boŕ, *sūr, *kuba, *čāl, *oń	*kara
*kïŕïl; *āl	*koŋur, *yạgïŕ	*siarïg, *yẹgren
	*yāĺïl
	*kȫk
	*(y)ip-

Further reading

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