Reconstruction:Proto-Turkic/eke

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

Compared to Proto-Mongolic *egeci (“older sister”). (Can this⁽⁺⁾ etymology be sourced?)

Noun

*eke

1. elder sister

Declension

Declension of *eke

	Singular 3)
Nominative	*eke
Accusative	*ekeni, *ekeg 4), *ekenig 1)
Genitive	*ekeniŋ
Dative	*ekeke
Locative	*ekede
Ablative	*ekeden
Allative	*ekegerü
Instrumental 2)	*eken
Equative 2)	*ekeče
Similative 2)	*ekeleyü
Comitative 2)	*ekeligü

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.

Derived terms

• *eke-č

See also

• *āka (“elder brother”)

Descendants

• Oghur:
  • Chuvash: акка (akka)

• Oghuz:
  • East Oghuz:
    • Turkmen: eje (“mother, aunt, elder sister”)
  • Ottoman Turkish: اجی (eci, “elder sister, grandmother”)
• Karluk:
  • Karakhanid: [script needed] (eke)
    • Chagatai: اچه (äçä, “mother, old woman”)
• Kipchak:
  • West Kipchak:
    • Karachay-Balkar: эгеч (egeç, “sister”)
  • South Kipchak:
    • Kazakh: әже (äje, “grandmother”)
  • East Kipchak
    • Kyrgyz: эже (eje, “elder sister, aunt”)
    • Southern Altai: эје (eǰe, “elder sister”)
• Siberian:
  • Old Turkic: [script needed] (eke)

References

• Starostin, Sergei, Dybo, Anna, Mudrak, Oleg (2003) “*eke/ *eke”, in Etymological dictionary of the Altaic languages (Handbuch der Orientalistik; VIII.8)‎^[1], Leiden, New York, Köln: E.J. Brill