Reconstruction:Proto-Turkic/-gučï

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

preceding vowel
A / Ï / O / U	E / I / Ö / Ü
*-gučï	*-güči

Etymology

From Proto-Turkic *-gü +‎ *-či. Comparable to Proto-Mongolic *-xečin.^[1]

Suffix

*-gučï

Forms professions from verbs.
‎*ay- (“to speak”) + ‎*-gučï → ‎*aygučï (“speaker”)

Derived terms

Category Proto-Turkic terms suffixed with *-gučï not found

Descendants

Common Turkic:

Oghuz:
- Old Anatolian Turkish:
  - Azerbaijani: -ici, -ıcı, -ucu, -ücü, -yici, -yıcı, -yucu, -yücü
  - Ottoman Turkish:
    - Turkish: -ici, -ıcı, -ucu, -ücü, -yici, -yıcı, -yucu, -yücü, -giç, -gıç, -guç, -güç
- Salar: -güci, -ğuci
- Turkmen: -ýjy, -ýji, -yjy, -iji, -ujy, -üji, -gyç, -giç
Kipchak:
- North Kipchak:
  - Bashkir: -үсе (-üse), -усы (-usı)
  - Tatar: -үче (-üçe), -уча (-uça)
- South Kipchak:
  - Caspian:
    - Kazakh: -ушы (-uşy), -уші (-uşı)
  - Kyrgyz-Kipchak:
    - Kyrgyz: -уучу (-uucu), -үүчү (-üücü)
    - Southern Altai: -учы (-učï), -ӱчи (-üči), -ачы (-ačï), -ечи (-yeči), -очы (-očï), -ӧчи (-öči)
Karluk:
- Uzbek: -uvchi

References

^ Poppe, Nicholas (1974) Grammar of Written Mongolian, Harrassowitz, page 45

Erdal, Marcel (1991) Old Turkic Word Formation‎^[1], volume I, Otto Harrassowitz, →ISBN, page 110
Clauson, Gerard (1972) “”, in An Etymological Dictionary of pre-thirteenth-century Turkish, Oxford: Clarendon Press, →ISBN, →OCLC, page xliii
Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “+çI”, in Nişanyan Sözlük

[1] Poppe, Nicholas (1974) Grammar of Written Mongolian, Harrassowitz, page 45

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