Reconstruction:Proto-Turkic/sāyïn
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Proto-Turkic[edit]
Etymology[edit]
The form *sāyu seen in the Siberian languages are from *sā- (“to count”) + *-yu (“gerundive suffix”) and the rest of the forms seem to be extended with *-ïn (“instrumental suffix”) from that.
Postposition[edit]
*sāyïn
Descendants[edit]
- Common Turkic: *sāyu
References[edit]
- Clauson, Gerard (1972) “sayu:”, in An Etymological Dictionary of pre-thirteenth-century Turkish, Oxford: Clarendon Press, page 858