Reconstruction:Proto-Turkic/kȫk

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

Compare Proto-Mongolic *köke (“blue, green”), Proto-Tungusic *kuku (“blue”).

Adjective

*kȫk

1. blue
2. green

Noun

*kȫk

1. sky, firmament

Declension

Declension of *kȫk

	Singular 3)
Nominative	*kȫk
Accusative	*kȫknü, *kȫknüg 1)
Genitive	*kȫknüŋ
Dative	*kȫkke
Locative	*kȫkde
Ablative	*kȫkden
Instrumental 2)	*kȫkün
Equative 2)	*kȫkče

¹⁾ Found in early Proto-Turkic.
²⁾ The original instrumental and equative cases have fallen into disuse in many 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.

Descendants

• Oghur:
  • Chuvash: кӑвак (kăvak)
  • → Hungarian: kék
• Common Turkic: *kȫk

• Arghu:
  • Khalaj: kîek
• Oghuz:
  • Azerbaijani: göy
  • Ottoman Turkish: گوك‎ (gök)
    • Gagauz: gök (göy-)
    • Turkish: gök (göğ-)
    • → Albanian: gjok, gjog
    • → Aromanian: ghioc
  • Salar: gök, göger
  • Turkmen: gȫk (gȫg-)
• Karluk:
  • Karakhanid: كُوكْ‎‎ (kök)
    • Chagatai: كوك‎ (kök)
      • Uyghur: كۆك‎ (kök)
      • Uzbek: koʻk
• Kipchak: كوك‎ (kök)
  • North Kipchak:
    • Bashkir: күк (kük)
    • Tatar: күк (kük)
  • West Kipchak:
    • Crimean Tatar: kök
    • Karachay-Balkar: кёк (kök)
    • Karaim: кӧк
    • Kumyk: гёк (gök, “green/blue”), кёк (kök, “sky”)
  • South Kipchak:
    • Caspian:
      • Kazakh: көк (kök)
      • Karakalpak: көк
      • Nogai: коьк (kök)
    • Kyrgyz-Kipchak:
      • Kyrgyz: көк (kök)
      • Southern Altai: кӧк (kök)
• Siberian:
  • Yenisei Kyrgyz: 𐰚𐰇𐰝‎ (kȫk)
  • Old Turkic: 𐰚𐰇𐰚‎ (kȫk)
  • Old Uyghur: [script needed] (kök)
    • Western Yugur: [script needed] (kük)
  • North Siberian:
    • Yakut: күөх (küöx)
    • Dolgan: күөк
  • South Siberian:
    • Sayan:
      • Tuvan: көк (kök)
      • Tofa: көк
    • Yenisei:
      • Khakas: кӧк (kӧk)
      • Shor: кӧк

See also

Colors in Proto-Turkic · *bodoglar, *bodogsāyïn (layout · text)

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

References

• Clauson, Gerard (1972) An Etymological Dictionary of pre-thirteenth-century Turkish, Oxford: Clarendon Press, page 708-709
• Doerfer, Gerhard (1967) Türkische und mongolische Elemente im Neupersischen [Turkic and Mongolian Elements in New Persian] (Akademie der Wissenschaften und der Literatur: Veröffentlichungen der Orientalischen Kommission; 20)‎^[1] (in German), volume III, Wiesbaden: Franz Steiner Verlag, page 640-642
• Sevortjan, E. V. (1980) Etimologičeskij slovarʹ tjurkskix jazykov [Etymological Dictionary of Turkic Languages]‎^[2] (in Russian), volume III, Moscow: Nauka, page 66-68
• Räsänen, Martti (1969) Versuch eines etymologischen Wörterbuchs der Türksprachen (in German), Helsinki: Suomalais-ugrilainen seura, page 287
• Róna-Tas, András; Berta, Árpád; Károly, László (2011) West Old Turkic: Turkic Loanwords in Hungarian (Turcologica; 84), Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, page 520-521
• Starostin, Sergei; Dybo, Anna; Mudrak, Oleg (2003), “*kök”, in Etymological dictionary of the Altaic languages (Handbuch der Orientalistik; VIII.8), Leiden, New York, Köln: E.J. Brill
• Tenišev E. R., editor (1984–2006) Sravnitelʹno-istoričeskaja grammatika tjurkskix jazykov: [Comparative Historical Grammar of Turkic Languages:] (in Russian), Moscow: Nauka, page 60, 604