User:Victar/Reconstruction:Proto-Turkic/küncit

This 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 edit

Etymology edit

Presumably ultimately borrowed from Proto-Iranian *kunčit, perhaps through Proto-Sogdic *kunčit[1], Tocharian A kuñcit[2],

Noun edit

*küncit (Common Turkic)

  1. sesame (seed)

Descendants edit


  1. ^ Tremblay, Xavier (2005) “Irano-Tocharica et Tocharo-Iranica”, in Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies[1], volume 68, number 3
  2. ^ Clauson, Gerard (1972) “”, in An Etymological Dictionary of pre-thirteenth-century Turkish, Oxford: Clarendon Press, pages 727-728