Reconstruction:Proto-Turkic/tumšuk

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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

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Etymology

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Clauson derives this lemma from the "causative form" of *tam- (to drip), which would yield *tamur-. In another entry (page 509)[1], he gives two reflexes of this would-be causative verb, which would be cognates to this Proto-Turkic term; Old Uyghur [script needed] (kan tomurmakka, nose bleeding) and Karakhanid تُمُرْماقْ (tamurmāq, to bleed (of nose)), also Karakhanid تَمُرْغانْ (tamurğān, bleeding continuously (of nose)).

EDAL, instead, proposes a different root with quite a semantic coverage, Proto-Turkic *tum- ("hat, cap; snout; beak; nose) which is then compared to Proto-Mongolic *tom- (chief, first), Proto-Tungusic *tumŋu- (top of head) and Proto-Japonic *tum- (top, head). Notwithstanding several etymological mistakes (see Japanese (つぶり) (tsuburi), for example, which is claimed as a "cognate"), Altaic Hypothesis is now widely discredited and its comparisons are deemed unreliable.

Noun

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*tumšuk

  1. nose
    Synonyms: *burun, *kaŋïr, *tāna
  2. beak

Descendants

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  • Oghuz:
    • West Oghuz:
      • Ottoman Turkish: طومشوق (tumşuk, beak)
        • Turkish: tumşuk (beak of large birds)
    • East Oghuz:
  • Karluk:
    • Karakhanid: [script needed] (tumšuq, beak)
  • Kipchak:
  • Siberian:
    • Old Uyghur: [script needed] (tumšuq, nose, beak)
    • North Siberian:
    • South Siberian:

References

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  • Dybo, Anna Vladimirovna (2013). Этимологический словарь базисной лексики тюркских языков (in Russian). TOO - Prosper Print. p. 412.
  • Clauson, Gerard (1972) “tumšuk”, in An Etymological Dictionary of pre-thirteenth-century Turkish, Oxford: Clarendon Press, pages 503, 509, 515-16
  • Starostin, Sergei, Dybo, Anna, Mudrak, Oleg (2003) “*tum-”, in Etymological dictionary of the Altaic languages (Handbuch der Orientalistik; VIII.8), Leiden, New York, Köln: E.J. Brill