Reconstruction:Proto-Turkic/ök

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

• *ok
• *-k

Postposition

*ök

1. (Common Turkic) emphatic particle.

   ‎*ben (“I”) + ‎*ök → ‎*ben ök (“I, personally...”)

Usage notes

1. Much like *-mi, it adheres to the vowel harmony of the word that comes before it.

   ‎*anča (“I”) + ‎*ök → ‎*anča ok (“he/she/it personally...”)

2. In certain instances, if the word ends with a vowel, it may drop *O- turning it into a suffix *-k

   ‎*anča (“I”) + ‎*ök → ‎*ančak (“he/she/it personally...”)

3. While the particle may not directly exist in the daughter languages except Old Turkic, it lives in a suffix form *-ek (“first person plural verbal suffix”) and in fossilized forms such as Turkish ancak (“but, except, however”).

Derived terms

• (Common Turkic) *-ek (“first person plural verbal suffix”)

Descendants

• Common Turkic:

• Siberian:
  • Old Turkic: [script needed] (ok)
  • Old Uyghur: [script needed] (ok)

References

Clauson, Gerard (1972) “ok”, in An Etymological Dictionary of pre-thirteenth-century Turkish, Oxford: Clarendon Press, page 76