Reconstruction:Proto-Turkic/bürküt

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

The original stem may have been *bür-, which preserved in Kazakh бүру (büru, “to grasp prey (of an eagle)”). Or a back formation hypothesis *bürküt > *bür-.

Also compared to Proto-Tungusic *muri (“eagle”), whence in Evenki мури (muri)

Noun

*bürküt

1. eagle

Declension

Declension of *bürküt

	Singular 3)
Nominative	*bürküt
Accusative	*bürkütni, *bürkütüg 4), *bürkütnig 1)
Genitive	*bürkütniŋ
Dative	*bürkütke
Locative	*bürkütde
Ablative	*bürkütden
Allative	*bürkütgerü
Instrumental 2)	*bürkütün
Equative 2)	*bürkütče
Similative 2)	*bürkütleyü
Comitative 2)	*bürkütlügü

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

• Oghur:
  • Chuvash: пӗркӗт (pĕrk̬ĕt)
• Common Turkic:
  • → Proto-Mongolic: *bürgüd
    • Mongolian: бүргэд (bürged)

• Proto-Oghuz:
  • East Oghuz:
    • Salar: bürgüt
    • Turkmen: bürgüt
• Karluk:
  • Chagatai: [script needed] (börküt)
    • Uzbek: burgut
    • Uyghur: بۈركۈت (bürküt)
• Kipchak:
  • North Kipchak:
    • Bashkir: бөркөт (börköt)
    • Tatar: бөркет (börket)
      • → Russian: беркут (berkut)
  • South Kipchak:
    • Karakalpak: бүркит (бürkit)
    • Kazakh: бүркіт (bürkıt)
  • East Kipchak:
    • Kyrgyz: бүркүт (bürküt)
    • Southern Altai: мӱркӱт (mürküt)
• Siberian:
  • South Siberian:
    • Sayan:
      • Tuvan: бүргүт (bürgüt)

References

• Doerfer, Gerhard (1965) Türkische und mongolische Elemente im Neupersischen [Turkic and Mongolian Elements in New Persian] (Akademie der Wissenschaften und der Literatur: Veröffentlichungen der Orientalischen Kommission; 19)‎^[1] (in German), volume 2, Wiesbaden: Franz Steiner Verlag, pages 331-333
• Sevortjan, E. V. (1978) Etimologičeskij slovarʹ tjurkskix jazykov [Etymological Dictionary of Turkic Languages] (in Russian), volume 2, Moscow: Nauka, page 300
• Starostin, Sergei, Dybo, Anna, Mudrak, Oleg (2003) “*bürküt”, in Etymological dictionary of the Altaic languages (Handbuch der Orientalistik; VIII.8)‎^[2], Leiden, New York, Köln: E.J. Brill
• Tenišev E. R., editor (1984–2006), Sravnitelʹno-istoričeskaja grammatika tjurkskix jazykov: [Comparative Historical Grammar of Turkic Languages:] (in Russian), Moscow: Nauka, page 169