Reconstruction:Proto-Turkic/sẹ
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Proto-Turkic
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Comparable to Proto-Tungusic *si (“you”) and maybe Proto-Mongolic *či (“you”). (Can this(+) etymology be sourced?)
The Common Turkic form *sen is a result of back formation from the oblique stem *sẹn- with the pronominal-n, compare *bẹ.
Pronoun
[edit]*sẹ
Declension
[edit]Declension of *sẹ (pronominal-n declension)
Singular | |
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Nominative | *sẹ |
Accusative | *sẹni |
Genitive | *sẹniŋ |
Dative | *saŋa |
Locative | *sẹnte |
Ablative | *sẹnten |
Allative 1) | *saŋaru |
Instrumental 1) | *sẹnin |
Equative 1) | *sẹnče |
Similative 1) | *sẹnleyü |
Comitative 1) | *sẹnligü |
1) The original allative, instrumental, equative, similative & comitative cases have fallen into disuse in many modern Turkic languages.
Postposition
[edit]*sẹ
- Denotes "to be" for second person singular/plural when at the end of an object; are
- Denotes second person singular or plural after various tenses
Related terms
[edit]- *siŕ (“you”)
Descendants
[edit]- Oghur
- Chuvash: эсӗ (es̬ĕ)
- Common Turkic
References
[edit]- Starostin, Sergei, Dybo, Anna, Mudrak, Oleg (2003) “*si”, in Etymological dictionary of the Altaic languages (Handbuch der Orientalistik; VIII.8), Leiden, New York, Köln: E.J. Brill
- Clauson, Gerard (1972) “sen”, in An Etymological Dictionary of pre-thirteenth-century Turkish, Oxford: Clarendon Press, page 831