Reconstruction:Proto-Turkic/čümeli

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

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Noun

*čümeli

1. ant

   Synonyms: *karïnčga, *kumursga

Declension

Declension of *čümeli

	Singular 3)
Nominative	*čümeli
Accusative	*čümelini, *čümelig 4), *čümelinig 1)
Genitive	*čümeliniŋ
Dative	*čümelike
Locative	*čümelide
Ablative	*čümeliden
Allative	*čümeligerü
Instrumental 2)	*čümelin
Equative 2)	*čümeliče
Similative 2)	*čümelileyü
Comitative 2)	*čümeliligü

¹⁾ Possibly in Pre-Proto-Turkic.
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.
⁴⁾ Found in the Old Turkic era.

Descendants

• Karluk:
  • Chigil: جُمالىٖ (çümeli)
    • Uyghur: چۈمۈلە (chümüle)
    • Uzbek: chumoli
• Kipchak: [script needed] (čümeli)
  • North Kipchak:
    • Tatar: [script needed] (čümöldü)
  • South Kipchak:
    • Southern Altai: [script needed] (čumalï)
• Siberian:
  • South Siberian:
    • Sayan:
      • Tuvan: шымыл (şımıl, “maggot”)

References

• Clauson, Gerard (1972) “*čüme:li:”, in An Etymological Dictionary of pre-thirteenth-century Turkish, Oxford: Clarendon Press, page 423
• Starostin, Sergei, Dybo, Anna, Mudrak, Oleg (2003) “*čümeli”, in Etymological dictionary of the Altaic languages (Handbuch der Orientalistik; VIII.8), Leiden, New York, Köln: E.J. Brill
• al-Kashgarî, Mahmud (1072–1074) Besim Atalay, transl., Divanü Lûgat-it-Türk Tercümesi [Translation of the “Compendium of the languages of the Turks”] (Türk Dil Kurumu Yayınları; 521) (in Turkish), 1985 edition, volume I, Ankara: Türk Tarih Kurmu Basımevi, published 1939–1943, page 448