Reconstruction:Proto-Turkic/borsuk

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 reconstructions

• *borsmuk

Reconstruction

Reflexes of /-m-/ in Siberian languages may be due to the nasal in the suffix.

Noun

*borsuk

1. badger

Declension

Declension of *borsuk

	Singular 3)
Nominative	*borsuk
Accusative	*borsuknï, *borsukug 4), *borsuknïg 1)
Genitive	*borsuknïŋ
Dative	*borsukka
Locative	*borsukda
Ablative	*borsukdan
Allative	*borsukgaru
Instrumental 2)	*borsukun
Equative 2)	*borsukča
Similative 2)	*borsuklayu
Comitative 2)	*borsuklugu

¹⁾ Possibly in Pre-Proto-Turkic.
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.
⁴⁾ Found in the Old Turkic era.

Descendants

• → Hungarian: borz
• Oghur:
  • Chuvash: пурӑш (purăš)
• Common Turkic: *borsuk, *borsmuk

• Oghuz:بُرْسُقْ (borsuq)
  • Old Anatolian Turkish:
    • Azerbaijani: porsuq
    • Ottoman Turkish: پورصوق (porsuk), پورصق (porsuk), پورسوق (porsuk), پورسق (porsuk), بورصوق (porsuk, borsuk, bursuk), بورصق (porsuk, borsuk, bursuk), بورسوق (porsuk, borsuk, bursuk), بورسق (porsuk, borsuk, bursuk)
      • Turkish: porsuk
      • → Armenian: փորսուղ (pʻorsuġ)
      • → Bulgarian: борсу̀к (borsùk), бърсу̀к (bǎrsùk)
      • → Lithuanian: barsukas
      • → Macedonian: бурсук (bursuk)
      • → Romanian: bursuc
      • → Ukrainian: борсу́к (borsúk)
        • → Polish: borsuk
  • Salar: borsuq
  • Turkmen: torsuk
• Karluk:
  • Karakhanid: بُرْسْمُقْ (borsmuq)
    • Khorezmian Turkic:
      • Chagatai: بورسوق (borsuq)
        • Uzbek: bo'rsiq
        • Uyghur: بورسۇق (borsuq)
• Kipchak:
  • Kipchak: بورسق (borsuq)
    • North Kipchak:
      • Bashkir: бурһыҡ (burhıq)
      • Tatar: бурсык (bursıq), bursık
    • West Kipchak:
      • Karachay-Balkar: борсукъ (borsuq)
      • Kumyk: порсукъ (porsuq)
    • South Kipchak:
      • Kazakh: борсық (borsyq)
    • East Kipchak:
      • Kyrgyz: борсук (borsuk)
      • Southern Altai: борсык (borsïk)
• Siberian:
  • North Siberian:
    • Yakut: барсук (barsuk)
  • South Siberian:
    • Sayan:
      • Tofa: борсуӄ (borsuq)
      • Tuvan: морзук (morzuk)
    • Yenisei:
      • Khakas: порсых (porsıx)
• → Russian: барсу́к (barsúk)

References

• Clauson, Gerard (1972) “”, in An Etymological Dictionary of pre-thirteenth-century Turkish, Oxford: Clarendon Press, page 369
• Doerfer, Gerhard (1965) Türkische und mongolische Elemente im Neupersischen [Turkic and Mongolian Elements in New Persian] (Akademie der Wissenschaften und der Literatur: Veröffentlichungen der Orientalischen Kommission; 19)‎^[1] (in German), volume II, Wiesbaden: Franz Steiner Verlag, page 284
• Starostin, Sergei, Dybo, Anna, Mudrak, Oleg (2003) “*borsuk, *borsmuk”, in Etymological dictionary of the Altaic languages (Handbuch der Orientalistik; VIII.8)‎^[2], Leiden, New York, Köln: E.J. Brill