Reconstruction:Proto-Turkic/ol-

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

Alternative forms

• *olu-

Etymology

Compared 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

*ol-

1. (intransitive) to be, become
2. (intransitive) to ripen

Derived terms

• *ol-ur-
• *ol-tur-

Descendants

• Medieval
  • Karakhanid: اُلْماقْ (olmāq)
  • Khorezmian: [script needed] (ol-) (perhaps)
• Oghuz
  • Azerbaijani: olmaq
  • Ottoman Turkish: اولمق (olmak) (perhaps, if not from *bōl-)
    • Turkish: olmak
  • Siberian:
    • Yakut: олох (oloq, “life”)

References

• 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