Reconstruction:Proto-Turkic/yōn-

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

Etymology

Compared to Proto-Mongolic *joma-gul (“wooden chips”), Proto-Tungusic *ńüŋ- (“to make notches, to scrape off, adze (with an axe)”). (Can this⁽⁺⁾ etymology be sourced?)

Notes

• The final -r- in Yakut is strange. Perhaps en early contamination with *yüŕ- (“to peel of skin, to skin”), whence also Turkish yüzmek (“to skin, to flay”).

Verb

*yōn-

1. (transitive) to adze, plane

Derived terms

• *yōnt- (“causative form”)
  • Oghuz:
    • West Oghuz:
      • Ottoman Turkish: یونتمق (yontmak)
        • Turkish: yontmak (“to adze”)
• *yōnga (“wooden chip”)
  • Oghuz:
    • West Oghuz:
      • Ottoman Turkish: یونغه (yonga)
        • Turkish: yonga

Descendants

• Oghur:
  • Chuvash: [script needed] (śon-)
• Common Turkic: *yōn-

• Oghuz:
  • West Oghuz:
    • Old Anatolian Turkish:
      • Azerbaijani: yonmaq
      • Ottoman Turkish: یونمق (yonmak)
        • Turkish: yonmak
        • Gagauz: yonmaa
  • East Oghuz:
    • Turkmen: ýōnmak
• Karluk:
  • Karakhanid: [script needed] (yon-)
    • Uzbek: yoʻnmoq
    • Uyghur: [script needed] (yonu-)
• Kipchak:
  • North Kipchak:
    • Bashkir: [script needed] (jun-)
    • Tatar: [script needed] (jun-)
  • South Kipchak:
    • Kazakh: жонуу (jonuu, “to whittle”)
  • Kyrgyz-Kipchak:
    • Southern Altai: јонор (ǰonor, “to plain, shave, slice”)
• Siberian:
  • Old Turkic: [script needed] (yon-, “to shave, scrape”)
  • North Siberian:
    • Dolgan: һуор (huor)
    • Yakut: суор (suor)
  • South Siberian:
    • Sayan:
      • Tuvan: чонар (çonar)

References

• Starostin, Sergei, Dybo, Anna, Mudrak, Oleg (2003) “*jōn-”, in Etymological dictionary of the Altaic languages (Handbuch der Orientalistik; VIII.8)‎^[1], Leiden, New York, Köln: E.J. Brill
• Clauson, Gerard (1972) “”, in An Etymological Dictionary of pre-thirteenth-century Turkish, Oxford: Clarendon Press, page 942
• Räsänen, Martti (1969) Versuch eines etymologischen Wörterbuchs der Türksprachen (in German), Helsinki: Suomalais-ugrilainen seura, page 206