Reconstruction:Proto-Turkic/čöl

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

Noun

*čöl

1. steppe, desert

Declension

Declension of *čöl

	Singular 3)
Nominative	*čöl
Accusative	*čölüg, *čölni1)
Genitive	*čölnüŋ
Dative	*čölke
Locative	*čölte
Ablative	*čölten
Allative	*čölgerü
Instrumental 2)	*čölün
Equative 2)	*čölče
Similative 2)	*čölleyü
Comitative 2)	*čöllügü

¹⁾ Originally only in pronominal declension.
²⁾ The original instrumental, equative, similative & comitative cases have fallen into disuse in many modern Turkic languages.
³⁾ Plurality is disputed in Proto-Turkic. See also the notes on the Proto-Turkic/Locative-ablative case and plurality page in Wikibooks.

Descendants

• Oghuz:
  • Old Anatolian Turkish::
    • Azerbaijani: çöl
    • Ottoman Turkish: چول (çöl)
      • Turkish: çöl
      • → Northern Kurdish: çol
  • Salar: çel
  • Turkmen: çöl
• Kipchak:
  • North Kipchak:
    • Tatar: чүл (çül)
    • Bashkir: сүл (sül)
  • Kipchak-Cuman:
    • Crimean Tatar: çöl, şöl
    • Kumyk: чёл (çöl)
  • Kipchak-Nogai:
    • Kazakh: шөл (şöl)
    • Nogai: шоьл (şöl)
  • Kyrgyz-Kipchak:
    • Kyrgyz: чөл (cöl)
    • Southern Altai: чӧл (čöl)
• Karluk:
  • Uzbek: choʻl
  • Uyghur: چۆل (chöl)
• Siberian:
  • Yenisei Turkic
    • Shor: чöл (çöl), шöл (şöl)
• → Mongolian: цөл (cöl)

References

• Clauson, Gerard (1972) “”, in An Etymological Dictionary of pre-thirteenth-century Turkish, Oxford: Clarendon Press, page 420
• Doerfer, Gerhard (1967) Türkische und mongolische Elemente im Neupersischen [Turkic and Mongolian Elements in New Persian] (Akademie der Wissenschaften und der Literatur: Veröffentlichungen der Orientalischen Kommission; 20)‎^[1] (in German), volume III, Wiesbaden: Franz Steiner Verlag, pages 122-123
• Räsänen, Martti (1969) Versuch eines etymologischen Wörterbuchs der Türksprachen (in German), Helsinki: Suomalais-ugrilainen seura, page 117
• Starostin, Sergei, Dybo, Anna, Mudrak, Oleg (2003) “*čöl”, in Etymological dictionary of the Altaic languages (Handbuch der Orientalistik; VIII.8)‎^[2], Leiden, New York, Köln: E.J. Brill