Reconstruction:Proto-Turkic/kōń

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

Akin to Proto-Mongolic *koni (“sheep”).

Noun

*kōń

1. sheep

   Synonym: *sarïk

Descendants

• Arghu: قُونْ (kōn)
  • Khalaj: qôn
• Proto-Oghuz: *koyn
  • Old Anatolian Turkish:
    • Ajem-Turkic:
      • Azerbaijani: qoyun
      • Qashqai: [script needed] (goyin)
      • Turkmeneli Turkish/Turcoman: [Term?] (ḳoyṷn)
    • Ottoman Turkish: قویون (koyun)
      • Balkan Gagauz Turkish: [Term?] (koyun?)
      • Gagauz: koyun
      • Turkish: koyun
      • → Crimean Tatar: qoyun
  • Salar: goy, goy yılı (affected or borrowed from Old Uyghur)
  • Turkmen: goýun
• Karluk:
  • Karakhanid: قُوىْ (kōy, “sheep”), قُوݧُغ (kōńug, “sheep (accusative)”)
    • Chagatai:
      • Uyghur: قوي (qoy)
      • Uzbek: qo’y
• Kipchak:
  • North Kipchak:
    • Bashkir: ҡуй (quy)
    • Tatar: куй (quy)
  • West Kipchak:
    • Crimean Tatar: qoy
    • Kumyk: къой (qoy)
    • Karachay-Balkar: къой (qoy)
    • Karaim: кой, къой
  • South Kipchak:
    • Caspian:
      • Karakalpak: qoy
      • Kazakh: қой (qoi)
      • Nogai: кой (koy)
    • Kyrgyz-Kipchak:
      • Southern Altai: кой (koy)
      • Kyrgyz: кой (koy)
• Siberian:
  • Old Turkic: 𐰸𐰆𐰪 (koń)
    • Old Uyghur: [script needed] (koy, koń, koyın)
      • Old Uyghur: 𐰴𐰆𐰪 (koń) (Irk Bitig)
      • Western Yugur: [script needed] (qoy)
  • South Siberian:
    • Sayan:
      • Tofa: һой
      • Tuvan: хой (xoy)
    • Yenisei:
      • Khakas: хой (xoy)
      • Shor: қой (qoy)

References

• “sheep” in Turkic Database.[2]
• al-Kashgarî, Mahmud (1072–1074) Besim Atalay, transl., Divanü Lûgat-it-Türk Tercümesi [Translation of the “Compendium of the languages of the Turks”] (Türk Dil Kurumu Yayınları; 521) (in Turkish), 1985 edition, volume I, Ankara: Türk Tarih Kurmu Basımevi, published 1939–1943, page 31
• “Bilge Kaghan Inscription” in Turkbitig.[3]
• Durukoğlu, Gökçen. (2021). Kaşgarlı'da /ny/ Sesi. Uluslararası Türk Lehçe Araştırmaları Dergisi (TÜRKLAD). [4]
• Clauson, Gerard (1972) “ko:ñ”, in An Etymological Dictionary of pre-thirteenth-century Turkish, Oxford: Clarendon Press, page ko:ñ of 631
• 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)‎^[5] (in German), volume III, Wiesbaden: Franz Steiner Verlag, pages 563-565