Reconstruction:Proto-Turkic/ātag

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

Noun

*ātag

1. island

Declension

Declension of *ātag

	Singular 3)
Nominative	*ātag
Accusative	*ātagïg, *ātagnï1)
Genitive	*ātagnïŋ
Dative	*ātagka
Locative	*ātagda
Ablative	*ātagdan
Allative	*ātaggaru
Instrumental 2)	*ātagïn
Equative 2)	*ātagča
Similative 2)	*ātaglayu
Comitative 2)	*ātaglïgu

¹⁾ Originally only in pronominal declension.
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.

Descendants

• Common Turkic:

• Oghuz:
  • Old Anatolian Turkish:
    • Azerbaijani: ada
    • Ottoman Turkish: آطه (ada), آدا (ada)
      • Turkish: ada
        • → Northern Kurdish: ada
        • → Zazaki: ada
      • Gagauz: ada
      • → Albanian: adë
      • → Armenian: ատա (ata)
      • → Crimean Tatar: ada
      • → Ladino: adá
      • → Laz: ადა (ada)
      • → Macedonian: ада (ada)
      • → Serbo-Croatian: ada
      • → Ubykh: ада (ada)
  • Turkmen: āda
• Kipchak:
  • North Kipchak:
    • Tatar: атау (ataw)
  • Cuman-Kipchak: atov
    • Kumyk: атав (ataw)
    • → Chuvash: утӑ (ut̬ă)
  • South Kipchak:
    • Kazakh: атау (atau)
    • Karakalpak: ataw

References

• Starostin, Sergei, Dybo, Anna, Mudrak, Oleg (2003) “*ātag”, in Etymological dictionary of the Altaic languages (Handbuch der Orientalistik; VIII.8), Leiden, New York, Köln: E.J. Brill