Reconstruction:Proto-Turkic/(y)ip-

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 edit

Etymology edit

Uncertain, historically multiple conflicting forms exist; *yipin, *yipgin & *yipgil. Clauson regards *yipin to be the original form and considers it a foreign borrowing with *-g- being added on to Turkify the word.

Adjective edit

*(y)ip-

(Common Turkic) purple, violet, dark red

Descendants edit

Karluk:
- Karakhanid: [script needed] (yipin, yipkil, yipkin)
  - Chagatai: [script needed] (epgin, “black fabric”), [script needed] (ipgin, “black fabric”)
Kipchak: [script needed] (ipkin)
- West Kipchak:
  - Karaim: ipkin
- →? Chuvash: йӗпкӗн (jĕpkĕn, “dense (of colors)”)
Siberian:
- Old Turkic:
  - Old Uyghur: [script needed] (yipin), [script needed] (yipün), [script needed] (yipkin), [script needed] (yipgin)
- South Siberian:
  - Sayan Turkic:
    - Tuvan: өкпең (ökpeñ)

References edit

Clauson, Gerard (1972) “yipgil/yipgin”, in An Etymological Dictionary of pre-thirteenth-century Turkish, Oxford: Clarendon Press, pages 875-876
Starostin, Sergei, Dybo, Anna, Mudrak, Oleg (2003) “*(j)ip-”, in Etymological dictionary of the Altaic languages (Handbuch der Orientalistik; VIII.8)‎^[1], Leiden, New York, Köln: E.J. Brill

āk, ürüŋ	boŕ, sūr, kuba, čāl, *oń	*kara
kïŕïl; āl	koŋur, yạgïŕ	siarïg, yẹgren
	*yāĺïl
	*kȫk
	*(y)ip-