Reconstruction:Proto-Turkic/barmak

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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

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Etymology

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Fedotov, ESTJa suggest a derivation from *bār (probably via an intermediary *bārï-) +‎ *-mak, if so the word may have had a vowel shortening as a result of length in the suffix.

Räsänen and Nişanyan suggests a derivation from *bar- (to go to) +‎ *-mak with semantic expansion.

Noun

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*barmak

  1. (Common Turkic, anatomy) finger
    Synonyms: *tarmak, *erŋek
  2. (Siberian Turkic) branch
    Synonyms: *tarmak, *tāl, *būtïk

Declension

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Descendants

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  • Common Turkic: *barmak

References

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  • Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “parmak”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
  • Räsänen, Martti (1969) Versuch eines etymologischen Wörterbuchs der Türksprachen (in German), Helsinki: Suomalais-ugrilainen seura, page 182
  • Sevortjan, E. V. (1978) Etimologičeskij slovarʹ tjurkskix jazykov [Etymological Dictionary of Turkic Languages] (in Russian), volume II, Moscow: Nauka, page 66
  • Starostin, Sergei, Dybo, Anna, Mudrak, Oleg (2003) “*biarŋak”, in Etymological dictionary of the Altaic languages (Handbuch der Orientalistik; VIII.8), Leiden, New York, Köln: E.J. Brill
  • in Turkic Lexicon.[1]