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Reconstruction:Proto-Turkic/kagun

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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

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Etymology

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Perhaps borrowed from Tibetan ག་གོན (ga gon, melon, gourd),[1] reduplicated borrowing from Old Mandarin (kwa)[2] (compare borrowings Tibetan གོན (gon, pumpkin), Nusu [Term?] (/⁠ɣɔ⁠/, pumpkin), Dzongkha གོན (gon, cucumber), Classical Mongolian ᠭᠤᠧ᠎ᠠ (ɣuē-a)), though this has been disputed[3].

Noun

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*kagun[4]

  1. melon, muskmelon, watermelon

Declension

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Declension of *kagun
singular 3)
nominative *kagun
accusative *kagunug, *kagunnï1)
genitive *kagunnuŋ
dative *kagunka
locative *kagunta
ablative *kaguntan
allative *kagungaru
instrumental 2) *kagunun
equative 2) *kagunča
similative 2) *kagunlayu
comitative 2) *kagunlugu
1) Originally used only in pronominal declension.
2) The original instrumental, equative, similative, and comitative cases have fallen into disuse in many modern Turkic languages.
3) Plurality in Proto-Turkic is disputed. See also the notes on the Proto-Turkic/Locative-ablative case and plurality page on Wikibooks.

Alternative reconstructions

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Descendants

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References

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  1. ^ Räsänen, Martti (1969), Versuch eines etymologischen Wörterbuchs der Türksprachen (in German), Helsinki: Suomalais-ugrilainen seura, page 157
  2. ^ Uray, G. (1954), “Duplication, gemination, and triplication in Tibetan”, in Acta Orientalia Academiae Scientiarum Hungaricae, volume 4, number 1/3, →JSTOR
  3. 3.0 3.1 3.2 Tenišev E. R., editor (2001), Sravnitelʹno-istoričeskaja grammatika tjurkskix jazykov: Leksika [Comparative Historical Grammar of Turkic Languages: Lexis] (in Russian), volume 4, Moscow: Nauka, page 139
  4. 4.0 4.1 Nugteren, Hans; Ross, Marti (1996), “Common Vocabulary of the Western and Eastern Yugur Languages: The Turkic and Mongolic Loanwords”, in Acta Orientalia Academiae Scientiarum Hungaricae, volume 49, number 1/2, Akadémiai Kiadó, →JSTOR
  5. 5.0 5.1 5.2 The template Template:R:trk:Clauson does not use the parameter(s):
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    Clauson, Gerard (1972), “ka:ğu:n”, in An Etymological Dictionary of pre-thirteenth-century Turkish, Oxford: Clarendon Press, →ISBN, →OCLC, page ğu:n
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    Nadeljajev, V. M.; Nasilov, D. M.; Tenišev, E. R.; Ščerbak, A. M., editors (1969), “qaγun”, in Drevnetjurkskij slovarʹ [Dictionary of Old Turkic] (in Russian), Leningrad: USSR Academy of Sciences, Nauka
  7. ^ Schluessel, Eric (2015), “melon”, in Digital glossary of Eastern Turki[1]