Reconstruction:Proto-Turkic/čebir-

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

Etymology

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Verb

*čebir-

1. to twist, turn

Descendants

• Oghur:
  • Chuvash: ҫавӑр (śavăr)
• Common Turkic:

• Oghuz:
  • Old Anatolian Turkish:
    • Azerbaijani: çevirmək
    • Ottoman Turkish: چویرمك (çevirmek)
      • Gagauz: çevirmää
      • Turkish: çevirmek
      • → Karaim: [script needed] (сivir-, čevir-)
  • Salar: çürgüsi, çüregüsi
  • Turkmen: çöwürmek
• Karluk:
  • Karakhanid: [script needed] (çevürme:k)
    • Chagatai:
      • Uyghur: [script needed] (čäbir-)
• Kipchak:
  • West Kipchak:
    • Karachay-Balkar: [script needed] (çüyür-)
    • Kumyk: [script needed] (çüyür-)
  • South Kipchak:
    • Caspian:
      • Nogai: [script needed] (şüyir-)
• Siberian:
  • North Siberian:
    • Yakut: себирий (sebiriy)

• ⇒ Proto-Turkic: *čebre
  • Oghur:
    • Chuvash: ҫавра (śavra)
  • Common Turkic:
    • Oghuz:
      • Old Anatolian Turkish:
        • Azerbaijani: çevrə
        • Ottoman Turkish: چوره (çevre)
          • Gagauz: çevrä
          • Turkish: çevre, çepeçevre
          • → Karaim: [script needed] (civre)
      • Turkmen: çöwre
    • Kipchak:
      • Cuman-Kipchak: čoura, čop čoura
        • Karachay-Balkar: [script needed] (çüyre, “contrariwise”)

References

• Clauson, Gerard (1972) “çevür-”, in An Etymological Dictionary of pre-thirteenth-century Turkish, Oxford: Clarendon Press, page 398
• Starostin, Sergei, Dybo, Anna, Mudrak, Oleg (2003) “*čebir-”, in Etymological dictionary of the Altaic languages (Handbuch der Orientalistik; VIII.8), Leiden, New York, Köln: E.J. Brill
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “çevre”, in Nişanyan Sözlük