Reconstruction:Proto-Turkic/tāt

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

Noun

*tāt

1. alien, stranger

Declension

Declension of *tāt

	Singular 3)
Nominative	*tāt
Accusative	*tātïg, *tātnï1)
Genitive	*tātnïŋ
Dative	*tātka
Locative	*tātda
Ablative	*tātdan
Allative	*tātgaru
Instrumental 2)	*tātïn
Equative 2)	*tātča
Similative 2)	*tātlayu
Comitative 2)	*tātlïgu

¹⁾ Originally only in pronominal declension.
²⁾ The original instrumental, equative, similative & comitative cases have fallen into disuse in many modern Turkic languages.
³⁾ Plurality is disputed in Proto-Turkic. See also the notes on the Proto-Turkic/Locative-ablative case and plurality page in Wikibooks.

Descendants

• Oghur:
  • → Hungarian: tót (“Slovak”)
• Common Turkic:

• Arghu:
  • Khalaj: tât
• Oghuz:
  • Old Anatolian Turkish:
    • Azerbaijani: tat
    • Ottoman Turkish:
      • Turkish: tat
      • →? English: Tat
• Karluk:
  • Karakhanid: [script needed] (tat)
    • Chagatai: [script needed] (tat)
      • Uyghur: [script needed] (Tat)
• Kipchak: [script needed] (tat)
  • West Kipchak:
    • Karaim: тат
• Siberian:
  • Old Turkic: 𐱃𐱃 (tat, “alien; Persian”)
    • Old Uyghur: tʾt (“Persian”)
      • Western Yugur: tat (“Tibetan; Eastern Yughur”)

References

• Clauson, Gerard (1972) “”, in An Etymological Dictionary of pre-thirteenth-century Turkish, Oxford: Clarendon Press, page 452
• Eren, Hasan (1999) “tat”, in Türk Dilinin Etimolojik Sözlüğü (in Turkish), Ankara: Bizim Büro Basım Evi, page 396
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “tat2”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Räsänen, Martti (1969) Versuch eines etymologischen Wörterbuchs der Türksprachen (in German), Helsinki: Suomalais-ugrilainen seura, page 466