Reconstruction:Proto-Turkic/emgek

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

From *emge- (to suffer, be tortured) +‎ *-k.

Noun

*emgek

  1. bother, worry, pains

Declension

Declension of *emgek
singular 3)
nominative *emgek
accusative *emgekig, *emgekni1)
genitive *emgekniŋ
dative *emgekke
locative *emgekde
ablative *emgekden
allative *emgekgerü
instrumental 2) *emgekin
equative 2) *emgekče
similative 2) *emgekleyü
comitative 2) *emgekligü
1) Originally used only in pronominal declension.
2) The original instrumental, equative, similative, and comitative cases have fallen into disuse in many modern Turkic languages.
3) Plurality in Proto-Turkic is disputed. See also the notes on the Proto-Turkic/Locative-ablative case and plurality page on Wikibooks.

Derived terms

  • *emgen-

Descendants

  • Oghur:
    • Chuvash: амак (amak, illness)
  • Common Turkic:
  • Proto-Oghuz:
    • West Oghuz:
      • Azerbaijani: əmək
      • Ottoman Turkish: امك (emek)
        • Turkish: emek (work, labour)
    • Salar: ömüklegüsi
    • Turkmen: emgenmek (to work hard, to suffer)
  • Karluk:
  • Kipchak:
    • North Kipchak:
      • Bashkir: имгәк (imgək)
      • Tatar: имгәк (imgäk)
    • South Kipchak:
    • East Kipchak:
  • Siberian:
    • Old Turkic:
      • Old Uyghur: [script needed] (emgek)
    • North Siberian:
      • Yakut: эмэх (emeq, rotten)

References

  • Clauson, Gerard (1972) “”, in An Etymological Dictionary of pre-thirteenth-century Turkish, Oxford: Clarendon Press, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 159
  • Räsänen, Martti (1969) Versuch eines etymologischen Wörterbuchs der Türksprachen (in German), Helsinki: Suomalais-ugrilainen seura, page 42
  • Sevortjan, E. V. (1974) Etimologičeskij slovarʹ tjurkskix jazykov [Etymological Dictionary of Turkic Languages] (in Russian), volume 1, Moscow: Nauka, pages 272-275, 25-26
  • Starostin, Sergei, Dybo, Anna, Mudrak, Oleg (2003) “*emge-”, in Etymological dictionary of the Altaic languages (Handbuch der Orientalistik; VIII.8)‎[1], Leiden, New York, Köln: E.J. Brill