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Reconstruction:Proto-Turkic/kudug

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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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From *kud- (to pour) +‎ *-ug.

Noun

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*kudug

  1. water well

Reconstruction notes

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The irregular preservation of /d/ in many modern languages imply that they were reborrowed from Mongolic. They are given here as directly inherited to avoid technicalities.

Descendants

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  • Proto-Mongolic: *kudug (see there for further descendants)
  • Proto-Common Turkic:

Further reading

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  • Clauson, Gerard (1972), “”, in An Etymological Dictionary of pre-thirteenth-century Turkish, Oxford: Clarendon Press, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 597
  • Eren, Hasan (1999), “Proto-Turkic/kudug”, in Türk Dilinin Etimolojik Sözlüğü [Etymological Dictionary of the Turkish Language]‎[1] (in Turkish), Ankara: Bizim Büro Basım Evi