Reconstruction:Proto-Turkic/-gü

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

preceding vowel
A / Ï / O / U	E / I / Ö / Ü
*-gu	*-gü

Etymology 1

Suffix

*-gü

1. Derives nouns from verbs.

Derived terms

Proto-Turkic terms suffixed with *-gü

Reconstruction:Proto-Turkic/belgü

Reconstruction:Proto-Turkic/bilegü

Reconstruction:Proto-Turkic/burgu

Reconstruction:Proto-Turkic/buŕagu

Reconstruction:Proto-Turkic/süŋgü

Reconstruction:Proto-Turkic/takïgu

Reconstruction:Proto-Turkic/tumagu

Related terms

• *bel-gü (“sign”)
• *buka-gu (“fetters, chain, string”)
• *bur-gu (“trumpet, pipe (of a plant)”)
• *buŕa-gu (“calf”)
• *kar-gu (“reed”)
• *küde-gü (“son-in-law”)
• *süŋ-gü (“lance”)
• *takï-gu (“hen”)
• *tala-gu (“deadly poison, diarrhoea, ulcer disease”)
• *tuma-gu (“sniffles, cold, rheum”)
• *törpi-gü (“file, rasp”)

Etymology 2

Suffix

*-gü

1. Suffix creating future verbal adjective.

   *bargu-yẹr

   The place where [one] will go to.

2. Suffix creating future tense.

   ‎*bar- (“to go”) + ‎*-gü → ‎*bargu (“Will go.”)

Derived terms

• *-gučï
• *-gusï

Descendants

• Oghur:
  • Chuvash: -ӑ (-ă), -ӗ (-ĕ, “future tense”)
• Common Turkic:

• Oghuz:
  • ⇒ Proto-Oghuz: (*gu-čak>) *-ï̄čak
    • Old Anatolian Turkish: [script needed] (-ıčak)
      • Azerbaijani: -acak
      • Gagauz: -acak
      • Ottoman Turkish: [script needed] (-ačak)
        • Turkish: -acak
    • Turkmen: -jak, -jek
    • →? Kipchak: *-ačak
    • → Uzbek: -ajak
  • ⇒ Proto-Oghuz: (*gu-sar>) *-ï̄sar
    • Old Anatolian Turkish: [script needed] (-ısar)
  • Salar: (*-gu *erür>) -ğur, -gür (“future tense”), -ğu, -gü (“verbal adjective”)
  • ⇒ Proto-Oghuz: (*-gusï>) *-asï
    • Early Old Oghuz: [script needed] (-āsı, “verbal adjective”)
      • Turkish: -ası
      • Turkmen: -asy
• Karakhanid: [script needed] (-gu/-gü)
  • Khorezmian Turkic: [script needed] (-gu/-gü)
    • Chagatai: [script needed] (-gu/-gü)
      • >? Uyghur: ى (i)
      • >? Uzbek: -a
• Kipchak:
  • Kipchak-Nogai:
    • Kazakh: -гі (-gı)

References

• Gültekin, Yrd. Doç. Dr. Mevlüt. “TARİHÎ VE ÇAĞDAŞ TÜRK LEHÇELERİNDE GELECEK ZAMAN EKLERİ ÜZERİNE BİR DENEME”. Türklük Bilimi Araştırmaları, sy. 20, 2006, ss. 33-59.