Reconstruction:Proto-Turkic/čebir-

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

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Verb

*čebir-

to twist, turn

Descendants

Oghur:
- Chuvash: ҫавӑр (śavăr)
Common Turkic:

Oghuz:
- Old Anatolian Turkish:
  - Azerbaijani: çevirmək
  - Ottoman Turkish: چویرمك (çevirmek)
    - Gagauz: çevirmää
    - Turkish: çevirmek
    - → Karaim: [script needed] (сivir-, čevir-)
- Salar: çürgüsi, çüregüsi
- Turkmen: çöwürmek
Karluk:
- Karakhanid: [script needed] (çevürme:k)
  - Chagatai:
    - Uyghur: [script needed] (čäbir-)
Kipchak:
- West Kipchak:
  - Karachay-Balkar: [script needed] (çüyür-)
  - Kumyk: [script needed] (çüyür-)
- South Kipchak:
  - Caspian:
    - Nogai: [script needed] (şüyir-)
Siberian:
- North Siberian:
  - Yakut: сэбирий (sebiriy)

⇒ Proto-Turkic: *čebre
- Oghur:
  - Chuvash: ҫавра (śavra)
- Common Turkic:
  - Oghuz:
    - Old Anatolian Turkish:
      - Azerbaijani: çevrə
      - Ottoman Turkish: چوره (çevre)
        Gagauz: çevrä
        
        Turkish: çevre, çepeçevre
        
        → Karaim: [script needed] (civre)
    - Turkmen: çöwre
  - Kipchak:
    - Cuman-Kipchak: čoura, čop čoura
      - Karachay-Balkar: [script needed] (çüyre, “contrariwise”)

References

Clauson, Gerard (1972) “çevür-”, in An Etymological Dictionary of pre-thirteenth-century Turkish, Oxford: Clarendon Press, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 398
Starostin, Sergei, Dybo, Anna, Mudrak, Oleg (2003) “*čebir-”, in Etymological dictionary of the Altaic languages (Handbuch der Orientalistik; VIII.8), Leiden, New York, Köln: E.J. Brill
Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “çevre”, in Nişanyan Sözlük