Reconstruction:Proto-Turkic/bēg

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

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Etymology

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There are different theories about the further etymology of the word.

However, German Turkologist Gerhard Doerfer assessed the derivation from an Iranian language as quite uncertain and pointed out that the word may be genuinely Turkic.[5][6]

Noun

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*bēg

  1. lord

Derived terms

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Descendants

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References

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  • Clauson, Gerard (1972) “be:g”, in An Etymological Dictionary of pre-thirteenth-century Turkish, Oxford: Clarendon Press, page 322
  1. ^ “bey.”, in Dictionary.com Unabridged (v 1.1). Random House, Inc.[1], 2008 March 22 (last accessed)
  2. ^ Clauson, Gerard (1972) “be:g”, in An Etymological Dictionary of pre-thirteenth-century Turkish, Oxford: Clarendon Press, page 322
  3. ^ Jamshid Ibrahim. Kulturgeschichtliche Wortforschung: persisches Lehngut in europäischen Sprachen. Otto Harrassowitz, Wiesbaden, 1991, p. 58.
  4. ^ Carter Vaughn Findley, Turks in World History, Oxford University Press, 2005, p. 45: "... Many elements of Non-Turkic origin also became part of Türk statecraft [...] for example, as in the case of khatun [...] and beg [...] both terms being of Sogdian origin and ever since in common use in Turkish. ..."
  5. ^ Baga”, in Encyclopædia Iranica, 2011 August 22 (last accessed)
  6. ^ Beg”, in Encyclopædia Iranica, 2011 May 7 (last accessed)