Reconstruction:Proto-Turkic/sẹ
Proto-Turkic
Etymology
From oblique case of *sẹ-. Somewhat similar to Proto-Mongolic *ci (“you”) and Proto-Tungusic *si (“you”).
Pronoun
*sẹ
Postposition
*sẹ
- Denotes "to be" for second person singular/plural when at the end of an object; are
- Denotes second person singular or plural after various tenses
Related terms
- *siŕ (“you”)
Descendants
- Common Turkic
- Karakhanid: سَنْ (sen)
- Old Turkic
- Khorezmian Turkic: [script needed] (sen)
- Arghu
- Khalaj: [script needed] (sän)
- Oghuz
- Kipchak
- Karluk
- Siberian
- Oghur
- Chuvash: эсӗ (es̬ĕ)
Further reading
- Starostin, Sergei, Dybo, Anna, Mudrak, Oleg (2003) “*si”, in Etymological dictionary of the Altaic languages (Handbuch der Orientalistik; VIII.8), Leiden, New York, Köln: E.J. Brill
- Clauson, Gerard (1972) “sen”, in An Etymological Dictionary of pre-thirteenth-century Turkish, Oxford: Clarendon Press, page 831