Reconstruction:Proto-Turkic/ōk

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

Alternative forms

*ūk

Etymology

This stem has often been connected with *ok (“arrow”).^[1]

Noun

*ōk

kin, tribe
Synonym: *bod

Declension

Declension of *ōk

	Singular ³⁾
Nominative	*ōk
Accusative	ōknï, ōkug ⁴⁾, *ōknïg ¹⁾
Genitive	*ōknïŋ
Dative	*ōkka
Locative	*ōkda
Ablative	*ōkdan
Allative	*ōkgaru
Instrumental ²⁾	*ōkun
Equative ²⁾	*ōkča
Similative ²⁾	*ōklayu
Comitative ²⁾	*ōklugu

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.

Derived terms

>? Proto-Turkic: *ōkuŕ

Descendants

Oghur
- Chuvash: йӑх (jăh)
Common Turkic:

Oghuz:
- >? Turkish: ok atmak (dial.)
Karluk:
- Karakhanid: اُوقْ (ōq, “share of inheritance”)
Kypchak:
- Kypchak-Nogai:
  - Kazakh: [script needed] (ŭq) (dialectal)
Siberian:
- South Siberian:
  - Old Turkic: 𐰸 (uq ~ oq, “kin, tribe”)
  - Sayan:
    - Tuvan: ук (uk)

References

^ Starostin, Sergei, Dybo, Anna, Mudrak, Oleg (2003) “*uk”, in Etymological dictionary of the Altaic languages (Handbuch der Orientalistik; VIII.8)‎^[1], Leiden, New York, Köln: E.J. Brill, citing VEWT 511, ЭСТЯ 1, 582-583, Егоров 76. Starostin thought the connection with "arrow" was made "erroneously".

Clauson, Gerard (1972) “O:k "a share of an inheritance"”, in An Etymological Dictionary of pre-thirteenth-century Turkish, Oxford: Clarendon Press, page 76

[1] Starostin, Sergei, Dybo, Anna, Mudrak, Oleg (2003) “*uk”, in Etymological dictionary of the Altaic languages (Handbuch der Orientalistik; VIII.8)‎^[1], Leiden, New York, Köln: E.J. Brill, citing VEWT 511, ЭСТЯ 1, 582-583, Егоров 76. Starostin thought the connection with "arrow" was made "erroneously".

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