Reconstruction:Proto-Turkic/ol-
Proto-Turkic
editAlternative forms
editEtymology
editCompared to Proto-Mongolic *ol- (“to find, obtain”), Proto-Tungusic *ō- (“to make, become”) and Korean 오다 (oda, “to come”) (< Middle Korean [script needed] (ó-)). Compare also Proto-Uralic *wole- (cf. Estonian olema, Finnish olla) and Proto-Indo-European *h₂el-. (Can this(+) etymology be sourced?)
Verb
edit*ol-
- (intransitive) to be, become
- (intransitive) to ripen
Derived terms
editDescendants
edit- Medieval
- Karakhanid: اُلْماقْ (olmāq)
- Khorezmian: [script needed] (ol-) (perhaps)
- Oghuz
References
edit- Clauson, Gerard (1972) “ol-”, in An Etymological Dictionary of pre-thirteenth-century Turkish, Oxford: Clarendon Press, page 125
- Starostin, Sergei, Dybo, Anna, Mudrak, Oleg (2003) “*ol-ur-, *ol(u)-tur-”, in Etymological dictionary of the Altaic languages (Handbuch der Orientalistik; VIII.8), Leiden, New York, Köln: E.J. Brill