Reconstruction:Proto-Turkic/seb-

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

Verb

*seb-

1. (transitive) to love; to like

Derived terms

• *seb-ig
• *seb-inč
• *seb-ük
• *seb-iĺ
• *seb-gü
• *seb-igme
• *seb-mek
• *seb-er
• *seb-deči
• *seb-gey
• *seb-miĺ
• *seb-dük
• *seb-gen
• *seb-e
• *seb-ü
• *seb-ip
• *seb-geli
• *seb-se-
• *seb-me-
  • *seb-me-ŕ
• *seb-in-
• *seb-il-
• *seb-iĺ-
• *seb-it-
  • *seb-t-ür-
• *seb-ik-

Descendants

• →? Proto-Mongolic: *seb-ki- (“to rest, refresh oneself, relax”)
• →? Proto-Tungusic: *seb-je- (“to have fun; fun”)
• Oghur:
  • Volga Bulgar: سَو (sev)
    • Chuvash: сав (sav)
• Common Turkic:

• Arghu:
  • Khalaj: səvmək
• Oghuz:
  • Old Anatolian Turkish:
    • Azerbaijani: sevmək
    • Ottoman Turkish: سومك (sevmek)
      • Turkish: sevmek
      • Gagauz: sevmää
      • → Crimean Tatar: sevmek
  • Turkmen: söýmek
  • Salar: söy
• Karluk:
  • Karakhanid: سَڤْماكْ (sevmēk)
    • Chagatai: [script needed] (séwmek)
      • Uzbek: sevmoq
      • Uyghur: سۆيمەك (söymek)
• Kipchak:
  • Kipchak: [script needed] (söw-), [script needed] (sew-)
  • Mamluk-Kipchak: [Arabic needed] (sew-)
  • West Kipchak:
    • Crimean Tatar: süymek
    • Karachay-Balkar: сюерге (süyerge)
    • Kumyk: сюймек (süymek)
    • Karaim:
  • North Kipchak:
    • Bashkir: һөйөү (höyöw)
    • Tatar: сөяркә (söyarkä), сөю (söyu)
  • South Kipchak:
    • Caspian:
      • Kazakh: сүю (süü)
      • Nogai: суьюв (süyuv)
      • Karakalpak:
    • Kyrgyz-Kipchak:
      • Kyrgyz: сүйүү (süyüü)
      • Southern Altai: сӱӱ (süü), сӱӱ- (süü-)
• Siberian:
  • Old Turkic:
    • Old Turkic: 𐰾𐰋 (seb-)
    • Old Uyghur: sʾβmʾk (sevmek)
  • North Siberian:
    • Yakut: иэй (iey)
    • Dolgan:
  • South Siberian:
    • Sayan:
      • Tuvan:
      • Tofa:
    • Yenisei:
      • Western Yugur:
      • Shor:
      • Khakas:

Further reading

• Starostin, Sergei, Dybo, Anna, Mudrak, Oleg (2003) “*sebe”, in Etymological dictionary of the Altaic languages (Handbuch der Orientalistik; VIII.8), Leiden, New York, Köln: E.J. Brill
• Clauson, Gerard (1972) “sev-”, in An Etymological Dictionary of pre-thirteenth-century Turkish, Oxford: Clarendon Press, page 784