Reconstruction:Proto-Turkic/okï-

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

Alternative reconstructions

• *hokï-, *hoku-, *oku-

Verb

*okï-

1. (transitive) to call
2. (transitive) to read

Descendants

• Oghur:
  • Volga Bulgar: وخ (waxï-) (as in waxïr fatihan suwrete)
    • Chuvash: (Maybe very similar вула (vula) (<*wala) has replaced)
  • >? Khazar: 𐰵𐰆𐰻𐰘𐰢? (oqurüm, “I read (past tense)”), -𐰵𐰆? (oqu-, “to read”)
• Common Turkic:

• Arghu:
  • Khalaj: hoqımaq
• Oghuz:
  • Old Anatolian Turkish:
    • Azerbaijani: oxumaq
    • Ottoman Turkish: اوقومق
      • Gagauz: okumaa
      • Turkish: okumak
  • Salar: oqa, oqu
  • Turkmen: okamak
• Karluk:
  • Karakhanid: اُقیٖدیٖ (okıdı) (3sg.pst)
    • Chagatai: اوقومق (oqumaq)
      • Uzbek: oʻqimoq
      • Uyghur: ئوقىماق (oqimaq)
• Kipchak:
  • Khorezmian Turkic: اوقوماق (oqumaq), اوقیماق (oqımaq)
  • North Kipchak:
    • Bashkir: уҡыу (uqıw)
    • Tatar: уку (uqu)
  • West Kipchak:
    • Crimean Tatar: oqumaq
    • Kumyk: охумакъ (oxumaq)
    • Karachay-Balkar: окъургъа (oqurğa)
    • Karaim:
  • East Kipchak:
    • Kyrgyz: окуу (okuu)
    • Southern Altai: окур (okur)
  • South Kipchak:
    • Karakalpak: оқу
    • Kazakh: оқу (oqu)
    • Nogai: окув (okuv)
• Siberian:
  • Old Uyghur: [script needed] (okï-)
  • North Siberian:
    • Yakut: угуй (uguy)
    • Dolgan:
  • South Siberian:
    • Sayan:
      • Tuvan:
      • Tofa:
    • Yenisei:
      • Western Yugur:
      • Khakas:
      • Shor:

References

• Clauson, Gerard (1972) “”, in An Etymological Dictionary of pre-thirteenth-century Turkish, Oxford: Clarendon Press, page 79
• Sevortjan, E. V. (1974) Etimologičeskij slovarʹ tjurkskix jazykov (in Russian), volume I, Moscow: Nauka, pages 439-441
• Räsänen, Martti (1969) Versuch eines etymologischen Wörterbuchs der Türksprachen (in German), Helsinki: Suomalais-ugrilainen seura, page 359
• Starostin, Sergei, Dybo, Anna, Mudrak, Oleg (2003) “*okɨ-”, in Etymological dictionary of the Altaic languages (Handbuch der Orientalistik; VIII.8)‎^[1], Leiden, New York, Köln: E.J. Brill