Reconstruction:Proto-Turkic/yāń-

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

Verb

*yāń-

1. (transitive) to shake

Derived terms

• *yań-uk
  • *yańuk-a-
    • *yańka-ïl-
    • *yańka-ïn-
    • *yańka-ala-
• *yań-ïg
• *yań-tur-
• *yań-ïl-
• *yań-ïn-

Descendants

• → Proto-Mongolic: *nayï- (“to shake”)

• Arghu:
  • Khalaj: yâmaq
• Oghuz:
  • Old Anatolian Turkish:
    • Azerbaijani: yaxalamaq, yaymaq (dial.)
    • Ottoman Turkish: [script needed] (yaymaq)
      • Turkish: yıkamak, yaymak (dial.)
  • Salar: yıqağusı (“to rinse”)
  • Turkmen: ýaýkalamak, ýāýmak
• Karluk:
  • Karakhanid: يَيْماقْ (yaymāq)
• Siberian:
  • Old Turkic: 𐰖𐰪 (yań-), 𐰖𐰖 (yay-)

References

• Clauson, Gerard (1972) “”, in An Etymological Dictionary of pre-thirteenth-century Turkish, Oxford: Clarendon Press, page 942
• Sevortjan, E. V., Levitskaja, L. S. (1989) Etimologičeskij slovarʹ tjurkskix jazykov [Etymological Dictionary of Turkic Languages] (in Russian), volume 4, Moscow: Nauka, page 78