Reconstruction:Proto-Turkic/āl

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 1

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Adjective

*āl

1. red, scarlet

Descendants

• → Middle Mongol: ᠠᠯ (ʾʾl /⁠al⁠/)
  • Classical Mongolian: ᠠᠯ (al)
    • Mongolian: ал (al)

• Oghuz:
  • West Oghuz:
    • →? Persian: آل
    • Azerbaijani: al
    • Ottoman Turkish: آل (al), ալ (al) — Armeno-Turkish
      • Turkish: al
      • → Albanian: all
      • → Armenian: ալ (al)
      • → Greek: άλικος (álikos, “crimson”)
    • Gagauz: al
  • East Oghuz:
    • Turkmen: āl
• Kipchak:
  • Kipchak-Cuman:
    • Kipchak: al (Codex Cumanicus)
      • Crimean Tatar: al
  • Kipchak-Bulgar:
    • Bashkir: ал (al)
    • Tatar: ал (al)
• Siberian:
  • Old Turkic: 𐰞 (l¹ /⁠āl⁠/)
  • Old Uyghur: 𐽰𐽰𐾁 (ʾʾl /⁠al⁠/)
• → Old East Slavic: алъ (alŭ, “bright red; crimson”)
  • Russian: алый (alyj)
    • → Ingrian: aaloi
    • → Komi-Permyak: а́лӧй (álöj)
    • → Komi-Yazva: а́лөй (álåj)

See also

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

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

Etymology 2

Perhaps related to *ār- (“to trick”)

Noun

*āl

1. device
2. trick, deceit

Derived terms

• *ālda- (“to deceive, trick, fool”)

• Oghuz:
  • Old Anatolian Turkish: آلدامق (aldamaq)
    • ⇒ Azerbaijani: aldatmaq, aldanmaq
    • Ottoman Turkish: آلدامق (aldamak)
      • Turkish: (dialectal) aldamak
      • ⇒ Gagauz: aldanmaa, aldatmaa
      • ⇒ Turkish: aldatmak, aldanmak
  • Turkmen: aldamak
• Karluk:
  • Karakhanid: اَلْداماقْ (ʾaldʾmʾq /⁠aldāmāq⁠/)
    • Chagatai: الداماق (ʾldāmāq /⁠aldamaq⁠/)
      • Uyghur: ئالدىماق (aldimaq)
      • Uzbek: aldamoq
• Kipchak:
  • Kipchak-Bulgar:
    • Bashkir: алдау (aldaw)
  • Kipchak-Cuman:
    • Kipchak: alda (Codex Cumanicus)
      • Crimean Tatar: aldamaq
  • Kyrgyz-Kipchak:
    • Kyrgyz: алдоо (aldoo)
• Siberian Turkic:
  • Old Uyghur: 𐽰𐽰𐾁𐾀𐽰𐽹𐽰𐽲 (ʾʾltʾmʾq /⁠altamaḳ⁠/)

Descendants

• Proto-Common Turkic:

• Oghuz:
  • Old Anatolian Turkish: آل (al)
    • Ottoman Turkish: آل (al)
      • Turkish: (dialectal) al
  • Turkmen: al
• Kipchak:
  • Kipchak-Cuman:
    • Mamluk-Kipchak: ال
    • Kipchak: al (Codex Cumanicus)
  • Kipchak-Nogai:
    • Kazakh: ал (al)
• Karluk:
  • Karakhanid: اَلْ (ʾal /⁠al⁠/)
    • Chagatai: ال (ʾl /⁠al⁠/)
      • Uyghur: ئال (al)
• Siberian Turkic:
  • Old Uyghur: 𐽰𐽰𐾁 (ʾʾl /⁠al⁠/)

Further reading

• Clauson, Gerard (1972), “a:l”, in An Etymological Dictionary of pre-thirteenth-century Turkish, Oxford: Clarendon Press, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 120