Reconstruction:Proto-Turkic/-mek

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
*-mak *-mek

Etymology

Comparable to Proto-Mongolic *-meg.

Suffix

*-mek

  1. Forms deverbal nouns and infinitives of verbs.
    *īl- (to catch) + ‎*-mek → ‎*īlmek (to catch; hook)

Derived terms

Descendants

  • Oghur:
    • Chuvash: -мак (-mak), -мек (-mek), -мах (-mah)[1]; -машкӑн (-maškăn), -мешкӗн (-meškĕn) (< *-макшӑн < *-mak üčün)
  • Common Turkic:
  • Arghu:
  • Oghuz:
    • Old Anatolian Turkish:
    • Salar: -me
    • Turkmen: -mek
  • Karluk:
    • Karakhanid: -ماكْ (-mēk)
      • Chagatai: [script needed] (-mek)
  • Kipchak:
    • West Kipchak:
      • Kumyk: -мек (-mek)
      • Karachay-Balkar:
      • Karaim:
    • North Kipchak:
      • Bashkir: -мәк (-mək)
    • South Kipchak:
  • Siberian:
    • Old Turkic:
      • Old Turkic: 𐰢𐰚 (mk) (as in 𐰺𐰢𐰴𐰲𐰃𐰾𐰃𐰤 (armaqçısın))
    • North Siberian:
      • Yakut: -мэх (-meq), -мах (-maq), -мөх (-möq), -мох (-moq), -бэх (-beq), -бах (-baq), -бөх (-böq), -бох (-boq), -пэх (-peq), -пах (-paq), -пөх (-pöq), -пох (-poq)

References

  1. ^ Levitskaja, Lija Sergejevna (1976) Istoričeskaja morfologija čuvašskovo jazyka [Historical morphology of Chuvash]‎[1], Moscow, page 160
  • Clauson, Gerard (1972) “”, in An Etymological Dictionary of pre-thirteenth-century Turkish, Oxford: Clarendon Press, →ISBN, →OCLC, page xliv
  • Erdal, Marcel (2004) “+mAk”, in A Grammar of Old Turkic (Handbook of Oriental Studies. Section 8 Uralic & Central Asian Studies; 3), Brill Academic Publishers, →ISBN, page 279
  • Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “+(A)mAk”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
  • Tekin, Talât (1968) A Grammar of Orkhon Turkic (Uralic and Altaic Series; 69), Bloomington: Indiana University, →ISBN, page 114