Reconstruction:Proto-Turkic/tümen

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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[edit]

Proto-Turkic numbers (edit)
 ←  10  ←  1,000 10,000
    Cardinal: *tümen
    Ordinal: *tümeninči
    Distributive: *tümener
    Collective: *tümenegü

Etymology[edit]

Uncertain, possibly loaned from Tocharian A tmāṃ or Tocharian B tᵤmāne (ten thousand), ultimately from Middle Chinese (MC mjonH, “myriad”)

Possibly derived from Proto-Turkic *tüm (all, entirely).

See also Mongolian түм (tüm, ten thousand), Manchu ᡨᡠᠮᡝᠨ (tumen, ten thousand).(Can this(+) etymology be sourced?)

Adverb[edit]

*tümen

  1. A countless number or multitude (of specified things), a myriad

Numeral[edit]

*tümen

  1. myriad, ten thousand

Declension[edit]

Descendants[edit]

  • Common Turkic: *tümen

References[edit]

  1. ^ Doerfer, Gerhard (1965) Türkische und mongolische Elemente im Neupersischen [Turkic and Mongolian Elements in New Persian] (Akademie der Wissenschaften und der Literatur: Veröffentlichungen der Orientalischen Kommission; 19)‎[1] (in German), volume II, Wiesbaden: Franz Steiner Verlag, § 983, page 632
  2. ^ Nugteren, Hans (2011) Mongolic phonology and the Qinghai-Gansu languages (dissertation)‎[2], Utrecht: LOT, page 527
  3. ^ Sanžejev, G. D., Orlovskaja, M. N., Ševernina, Z. V. (2015–) Etimologičeskij slovarʹ mongolʹskix jazykov: v 3 t. [Etymological dictionary of Mongolic languages: in 3 vols.] (in Russian), volume III, Moscow: Institute of Oriental Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences, page 187
  • Clauson, Gerard (1972) “tümen”, in An Etymological Dictionary of pre-thirteenth-century Turkish, Oxford: Clarendon Press, pages 507-508
  • Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “tümen”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
  • Räsänen, Martti (1969) Versuch eines etymologischen Wörterbuchs der Türksprachen (in German), Helsinki: Suomalais-ugrilainen seura, page 504