Reconstruction:Proto-Turkic/kāp
Proto-Turkic
editEtymology
editUltimately from Middle Chinese 匣 (ɦˠap̚) Compare to Proto-Mongolic *kabtaga(n) (“sack”). (Can this(+) etymology be sourced?). Not to be confused with *kap- (“to close”).
Noun
edit*kāp
Derived terms
edit- *kāpsa- (“to include”)
- *kāpla- (“to cover”)
- *kāplama (“covering, coating”)
- *kāpa- (“to surround”)
- *kāplïg
- *kāpsïŕ
Descendants
edit- Common Turkic:
- Oghuz:
- Karluk:
- Karakhanid: [script needed] (qap)
- Uyghur: [script needed] (qap)
- Uzbek: qop
- Karakhanid: [script needed] (qap)
- Kipchak:
- Siberian:
References
edit- Starostin, Sergei, Dybo, Anna, Mudrak, Oleg (2003) “*Kāp”, in Etymological dictionary of the Altaic languages (Handbuch der Orientalistik; VIII.8), Leiden, New York, Köln: E.J. Brill