Reconstruction:Proto-Turkic/oltur-

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 edit

Etymology edit

Causative of *ol- (“to be”). Some modern languages show assimilation of -/lt/- cluster into -/t/-. Cognate of *olur- (“to sit”).

Verb edit

*oltur-

(intransitive) to sit
(intransitive) to dwell, reside

Related terms edit

*ol-
*ol-ur-

Descendants edit

Common Turkic:

Medieval
- Karakhanid: اُلْتُرْماقْ (olturmāq), اُلْدُرْماقْ (oldurmāq)
- Old Turkic
  - Old Uyghur: [script needed] (oltur-)
- Khorezmian: [script needed] (oltur-), [script needed] (otur-)
- Kipchak: [script needed] (oltur-)
Karluk
- Chagatai: اولتورمق (olturmaq)
  - Uyghur: ئولتۇرماق (olturmaq)
  - Uzbek: oʻtirmoq
Kipchak
- Aral:
  - Kazakh: отыру (otyru)
- Eastern
  - Kyrgyz: отуруу (oturuu), олтуруу (olturuu)
  - Southern Altai: отурар (oturar)
- Ural:
  - Bashkir: ултырыу (ultırıw)
  - Tatar: утыру (utıru), утырырга (utırırga)
Oghuz:
- Old Anatolian Turkish:
  - Azerbaijani: oturmaq
  - Ottoman Turkish: اوتورمق (oturmak)
    - Turkish: oturmak
- Salar: otğusı, otırğusı
- Turkmen: oturmak
Siberian:
- North Siberian:
  - Dolgan: олор
  - Yakut: олор (olor)
- South Siberian:
  - Khakas: одырарға (odırarğa)

References edit

Clauson, Gerard (1972) “olur-”, in An Etymological Dictionary of pre-thirteenth-century Turkish, Oxford: Clarendon Press, page 150
Starostin, Sergei, Dybo, Anna, Mudrak, Oleg (2003) “*ol-ur-, *ol(u)-tur-”, in Etymological dictionary of the Altaic languages (Handbuch der Orientalistik; VIII.8), Leiden, New York, Köln: E.J. Brill