Reconstruction:Proto-Turkic/urug

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

From *ur +‎ *-ug. Very similar to Proto-Turkic *urï (“male child, son”). (This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Noun

*urug

1. seed
2. kin, descendants

Declension

Declension of *urug

	Singular 3)
Nominative	*urug
Accusative	*urugnï, *urugug 4), *urugnïg 1)
Genitive	*urugnïŋ
Dative	*urugka
Locative	*urugda
Ablative	*urugdan
Allative	*uruggaru
Instrumental 2)	*urugun
Equative 2)	*urugča
Similative 2)	*uruglayu
Comitative 2)	*uruglugu

¹⁾ Possibly in Pre-Proto-Turkic.
²⁾ The original instrumental, equative, similative & comitative cases have fallen into disuse in many modern 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.
⁴⁾ Found in the Old Turkic era.

Descendants

• Oghur:
  • Chuvash: вӑрӑ (vără)
• Common Turkic:

• Oghuz:
  • Old Anatolian Turkish:
    • Azerbaijani: uruq
    • Ottoman Turkish: اوروق (uruq)
  • Turkmen: urug
• Karluk:
  • Karakhanid: اُرُغْ (uruğ)
    • Uzbek: urugʻ
    • Uyghur: ئۇرۇق (uruq)
• Kipchak:
  • East Kipchak:
    • Kyrgyz: урук (uruk), уруу (uruu)
  • North Kipchak
    • Bashkir: ырыу (ırıw)
  • South Kipchak:
    • Kazakh: ұрық (ūryq), ру (ru)
• Siberian:
  • Old Uyghur: [script needed] (uruğ)
  • North Siberian:
    • Dolgan: уруу
    • Yakut: уруу (uruu)
  • South Siberian:
    • Sayan:
      • Tuvan: уруг (urug, “child; young girl, daughter”)
      • Tofa: [script needed] (uruğ)
    • Yenisei:
      • Khakas: урух (urux)

• ⇒ Proto-Turkic: *urugla-
  • Karakhanid: اُرُغْلاماقْ (uruğlamaq)
• ⇒ Proto-Turkic: *uruglan-
  • Karakhanid: اُرُغْلَنْماقْ (uruğlanmaq)
• Proto-Turkic: *urugluk
  • Common Turkic:
  • Oghuz:
    • Salar: urlaq, urluq
  • Karluk:
    • Karakhanid: اُرُغْلُقْ (uruğluq, “seed corn”)
      • Khorezmian Turkic: [script needed] (urluk)
        • Uyghur: [script needed] (uruqluq)
  • Kipchak:
    • North Kipchak:
      • Bashkir: орлоҡ (orloq)
      • Tatar: орлык (orlıq)
      • →? Chuvash: вӑрлӑх (vărlăh)
    • Cuman-Kipchak: [script needed] (urluk)
      • Kumyk: урлукъ (urluq)
      • Crimean Tatar: urluq
      • Karachay-Balkar: урлукъ (urluq)
    • South Kipchak:
      • Nogai: урлык (urlık)

References

• Clauson, Gerard (1972) “”, in An Etymological Dictionary of pre-thirteenth-century Turkish, Oxford: Clarendon Press, pages 197, 214
• 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, Ankara: Türk Tarih Kurmu Basımevi, published 1939–1943, pages 63-64, 293, 303