Reconstruction:Proto-Turkic/bedük

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

From *bedü- (“to grow”) +‎ *-k.

Adjective

*bedük

1. big
2. high

Descendants

• → Proto-Mongolic: *bedüxün
  • Mongolian: бүдүүн (büdüün)
• Oghur:
  • Chuvash: пысӑк (pys̬ăk)
• Common Turkic: *bedük

• Arghu:
  • Khalaj: bidük, bidik, büdük
• Proto-Oghuz: *bedük
  • West Oghuz:
    • Old Anatolian Turkish: بیوك (biyük)
      • Ajem-Turkic: بیوک (biyük)
        • Azerbaijani: بویوک, böyük
        • Afshari: بییک (bäyik)
        • Iraqi Turkmen: böyüg
        • Qashqai: بوییک (böyik)
      • Ottoman Turkish: بیوك (biyük), (Late Ottoman) بویوك (büyük)
        • Turkish: büyük
        • Gagauz: büük
  • East Oghuz:
    • Salar: biki
    • Khorasani Turkish: behey
    • Turkmen: beýik
• Karluk:
  • Karakhanid: بَدُكْ (bädük)
    • Khorezmian Turkic:
      • Chagatai: بویوک (büyük)
        • Uyghur: بۈيۈك (büyük)
        • Uzbek: buyuk
• Kipchak:
  • Kipchak: بيك (büyük, bäyäk)
    • North Kipchak:
      • Bashkir: бөйөк (böyök), бейек (beyek)
      • Tatar: биек (biyek)
    • West Kipchak:
      • Crimean Tatar: büyük, buyuk, biyk
        • Urum: бӱйӱк (büyük), бейӱк (beyük)
      • Karachay-Balkar: мийик (miyik)
      • Karaim: бийик (biyik)
      • Kumyk: бийик (biyik)
      • Krymchak: бӱйӱк (büyük), буйук (buyuk)
    • South Kipchak:
      • Karakalpak: бийик (biyik)
      • Kazakh: биік (biık)
      • Nogai: бийик (biyik)
      • Siberian Tatar: бӧйек (böyek), пӧйӧк (pöyök), пүйик (püyik), пийик (piyik)
    • Kyrgyz-Kipchak
      • Kyrgyz: бийик (biyik)
      • Southern Altai: бийик (biyik)
• Siberian:
  • Old Turkic: 𐰋𐰓𐰜 (bedük)
    • Old Uyghur: pʾdwk (bedük)
      • Western Yugur: pezik
  • Sayan:
    • Dukhan: петәк (petäk)
    • Tuvan: бедик (bedik)
    • Tofa: бедік (bedik)
  • Yenisei:
    • Chulym: пӱйӧк (püyök), пӱзӧк (püzök)
    • Khakas: пӧзік
    • Shor: мӧзӱк (mözük), пийик (piyik)

References

• Straughn, Christopher A. (2023) “big”, in Turkic database at Elegant Lexicon
• Starostin, Sergei, Dybo, Anna, Mudrak, Oleg (2003) “*bedük”, in Etymological dictionary of the Altaic languages (Handbuch der Orientalistik; VIII.8)‎^[2], Leiden, New York, Köln: E.J. Brill