Reconstruction:Proto-Turkic/küŕen

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

Akin to Proto-Mongolic *kürene (“ferret, weasel”), Proto-Tungusic *xur- (“bear; gopher; bear's flesh (as food); young tarbagan”). (Can this⁽⁺⁾ etymology be sourced?)

Noun

*küŕen

1. ferret, weasel

   Synonyms: *argun (“a kind of weasel”), *tok- (“weasel”)

Declension

Declension of *küŕen

	Singular 3)
Nominative	*küŕen
Accusative	*küŕenni, *küŕenig 4), *küŕennig 1)
Genitive	*küŕenniŋ
Dative	*küŕenke
Locative	*küŕente
Ablative	*küŕenten
Allative	*küŕengerü
Instrumental 2)	*küŕenin
Equative 2)	*küŕenče
Similative 2)	*küŕenleyü
Comitative 2)	*küŕenligü

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:
  • → Hungarian: görény
  • →? Proto-Mongolic: *kürene
    • Native Script Mongolian: ᠬᠥ᠊᠊ᠷ᠊ᠢ᠊᠊ᠨ
      ᠬᠥ᠊᠊ᠷ‍ᠠ‍‍ᠠ‍᠊ᠢ᠊ᠡ᠋ (kö--r-i--n kö--r‍a‍‍a‍-i-e)
    • Mongolian: хүрэн (xüren)
• Common Turkic: *küzen

• Oghuz:
  • East Oghuz:
    • ⇒ Turkmen: alajgözen
• Kipchak:
  • → Nor Nakhichevan Armenian: գյուջեն (gyuǰen), գուջեն (guǰen)
  • West Kipchak:
    • Kumyk: гёзен (gözen)
  • North Kipchak:
    • Bashkir: көҙән (köźən)
  • South Kipchak:
    • Karakalpak: [script needed] (güzen)
    • Kazakh: күзэн (küzén), сасық күзен (sasyq küzen)
  • Kyrgyz-Kipchak:
    • Kyrgyz: күзөн (küzön)
    • Southern Altai: кӱзен (küzen)
• Siberian:
  • South Siberian:
    • Yeniseian:
      • Khakas: кӱзен (küzen)
    • Sayan:
      • Tuvan: күзэн (küzen, “Siberian polecat”)

References

• Starostin, Sergei, Dybo, Anna, Mudrak, Oleg (2003) “küŕen”, in Etymological dictionary of the Altaic languages (Handbuch der Orientalistik; VIII.8)‎^[1], Leiden, New York, Köln: E.J. Brill
• Clauson, Gerard (1972) “”, in An Etymological Dictionary of pre-thirteenth-century Turkish, Oxford: Clarendon Press, page 761
• Räsänen, Martti (1969) Versuch eines etymologischen Wörterbuchs der Türksprachen (in German), Helsinki: Suomalais-ugrilainen seura, page 312
• Levitskaja, L. S., Dybo, A. V., Rassadin, V. I. (1997) Etimologičeskij slovarʹ tjurkskix jazykov [Etymological Dictionary of Turkic Languages] (in Russian), volume 5, Moscow: Jazyki russkoj kulʹtury, page 86
• Tenišev E. R., editor (1984–2006), Sravnitelʹno-istoričeskaja grammatika tjurkskix jazykov: [Comparative Historical Grammar of Turkic Languages:] (in Russian), Moscow: Nauka, page 163