Reconstruction:Proto-Turkic/tāl-

See also: Reconstruction:Proto-Turkic/tal- and Reconstruction:Proto-Turkic/tal

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

*tāl-

1. (intransitive, Common Turkic) to sink

Derived terms

• *tāluy (“sea, ocean”) (if not < MC 大灅 (dầj-lwi))
  • Old Turkic: 𐱃𐰞𐰆𐰖 (taluy)
  • →? Proto-Mongolic: *dalai (“sea”)
    • Mongolian: далай (dalaj)
      • → Tuvan: далай (dalay)
      • → Yakut: далай (dalay)
    • Buryat: далай (dalaj)
    • Kalmyk: дала (dala)

Descendants

• Common Turkic:

• Proto-Oghuz: *dāl-
  • West Oghuz:
    • Old Anatolian Turkish:
      • Azerbaijani: dalmaq (“to dive”)
      • Ottoman Turkish:
        • Turkish: dalmak (“to dive”)
  • East Oghuz:
    • Turkmen: dālmak (dial)
  • North Kipchak:
    • Tatar: талау (talaw) (dial)
  • West Kipchak:
    • Karaim: [script needed] (dal-)

References

• Clauson, Gerard (1972) “”, in An Etymological Dictionary of pre-thirteenth-century Turkish, Oxford: Clarendon Press, page 502
• Sevortjan, E. V. (1980) Etimologičeskij slovarʹ tjurkskix jazykov [Etymological Dictionary of Turkic Languages] (in Russian), volume 3, Moscow: Nauka, pages 133-134
• Starostin, Sergei, Dybo, Anna, Mudrak, Oleg (2003) “*tāl-”, in Etymological dictionary of the Altaic languages (Handbuch der Orientalistik; VIII.8)‎^[1], Leiden, New York, Köln: E.J. Brill