Reconstruction:Proto-Mongolic/kökexür

This Proto-Mongolic 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-Mongolic

Etymology

Perhaps from *köke- (“to suck”) +‎ *-xür.

Noun

*kökexür

1. leather vessel for liquids
2. snuff bottle

Descendants

• Bonan: kokor (Qinghai)
• Buryat: хүхүүр (xüxüür)
• East Yugur: hküür
• Middle Mongol:

  Arabic script: [Arabic needed] (kökür) (Rasulid Hexaglot)

  Chinese: [Han needed] (go'ur) (Secret History, uncertain)

  • Mongolian:

    Written: ᠬᠥᠬᠦᠦᠷ (köküür), ᠬᠥᠬᠦᠭᠦᠷ (kökügür), ᠬᠥᠬᠦᠷ (kökür)

    Khalkha: хөхүүр (xöxüür)

    Ordos: /ɡʉkʰʉːr/

• Written Oirat:
  • Kalmyk: көкүр (kökür), күүр (küür) (obsolete, uncertain)
• → Kyrgyz: көөкөр (köökör)
• → Khakas: кӧгӧр, кӱгер (küger)
• → Tuvan: көгээр (kögeer)
• → Yakut: көҕүөр (köğüör)
• → Persian: کاکاور (kâkâvor)
• →? Hunnic: *kukur
  • → Byzantine Greek: κούκουρον (koúkouron), κούκκουρον (koúkkouron)
    • → Medieval Latin: cucurum, cucurus, cucura, coccura
      • → Albanian: kukur (or from Greek)
        • → Romanian: cucură
      • → Proto-West Germanic: *kokur (see there for further descendants)

References

• Doerfer, Gerhard (1963) Türkische und mongolische Elemente im Neupersischen [Turkic and Mongolian Elements in New Persian] (Akademie der Wissenschaften und der Literatur: Veröffentlichungen der Orientalischen Kommission; 16)‎^[1] (in German), volume I, Wiesbaden: Franz Steiner Verlag, pages 451–452
• Vasmer, Max (1964–1973) “кокор”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), Moscow: Progress
• Nugteren, Hans (2011) Mongolic phonology and the Qinghai-Gansu languages (dissertation)‎^[2], Utrecht: LOT, page 425
• Sanžejev, G. D., Orlovskaja, M. N., Ševernina, Z. V. (2016) Etimologičeskij slovarʹ mongolʹskix jazykov: v 3 t. [Etymological dictionary of Mongolic languages: in 3 vols.] (in Russian), volume II, Moscow: Institute of Oriental Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences, page 138
• Tatarincev, B. I. (2004) “көгээр”, in Monguš D. A., editor, Etimologičeskij slovarʹ tuvinskovo jazyka [Etymological Dictionary of the Tuvan Language] (in Russian), volume III, Novosibirsk: Nauka, pages 226–227