Reconstruction:Proto-Turkic/tẹri

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

*tẹri

1. (Common Turkic) skin, leather, hide

   Synonyms: *kuńak, *keš, *algï

Declension

Declension of *tẹri

	Singular 3)
Nominative	*tẹri
Accusative	*tẹrini, *tẹrig 4), *tẹrinig 1)
Genitive	*tẹriniŋ
Dative	*tẹrike
Locative	*tẹride
Ablative	*tẹriden
Allative	*tẹrigerü
Instrumental 2)	*tẹrin
Equative 2)	*tẹriče
Similative 2)	*tẹrileyü
Comitative 2)	*tẹriligü

¹⁾ Possibly in Pre-Proto-Turkic.
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.
⁴⁾ Found in the Old Turkic era.

Descendants

• Arghu:
  • Khalaj: təri
• Oghuz:
  • Old Anatolian Turkish:
    • Azerbaijani: dəri
    • Ottoman Turkish: درى (diri)
      • Turkish: deri
      • Gagauz: deri
  • Turkmen: deri
  • Salar: tiri
• Karluk:
  • Karakhanid: [script needed] (teri)
    • Chagatai:
      • Uzbek: teri
      • Uyghur: تېرە (tëre)
• Kipchak:
  • Kipchak: [script needed] (teri)
  • North Kipchak:
    • Bashkir: тире (tire)
    • Tatar: тире (tire)
      • → Chuvash: тир (tir)
  • West Kipchak:
    • Crimean Tatar: teri
    • Kumyk: тери (teri)
    • Karachay-Balkar: тери (teri)
    • Karaim: тери, тэри
  • East Kipchak:
    • Kyrgyz: тери (teri)
    • Southern Altai: тере (tere)
  • South Kipchak:
    • Karakalpak: teri
    • Kazakh: тері (terı)
    • Nogai: тери (teri)
• Siberian:
  • Old Uyghur: tʾry (teri)
    • Western Yugur: [script needed] (tʰer)
  • North Siberian:
    • Dolgan: тирии (tirii)
    • Yakut: тирии (tirii), тэрии (terii)
  • South Siberian:
    • Sayan:
      • Tofa:
        • Tuba-Kizhi: тере (tere)
        • Kumandy-Kizhi: тере (tere)
    • Yenisei:
      • Khakas: теер (teer)
      • Shor: тере (tere)

References

• Clauson, Gerard (1972) “teri: (d-)”, in An Etymological Dictionary of pre-thirteenth-century Turkish, Oxford: Clarendon Press, page 531
• Eren, Hasan (1999) “deri”, in Türk Dilinin Etimolojik Sözlüğü [Etymological Dictionary of the Turkish Language] (in Turkish), Ankara: Bizim Büro Basım Evi, page 109
• Räsänen, Martti (1969) Versuch eines etymologischen Wörterbuchs der Türksprachen (in German), Helsinki: Suomalais-ugrilainen seura, page 475
• Starostin, Sergei, Dybo, Anna, Mudrak, Oleg (2003) “*dẹri”, in Etymological dictionary of the Altaic languages (Handbuch der Orientalistik; VIII.8), Leiden, New York, Köln: E.J. Brill