Reconstruction:Proto-Turkic/kerekü

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

Somehow similar to Proto-Mongolic *ger (“yurt, house”), whence also Mongolian гэр (ger, “yurt”). (Can this⁽⁺⁾ etymology be sourced?)

Noun

*kerekü

tent, yurt
grating of the yurt

Declension

Declension of *kerekü
	singular ³⁾
nominative	*kerekü
accusative	kereküg, kereküni¹⁾
genitive	*kerekünüŋ
dative	*kereküke
locative	*kereküde
ablative	*kereküden
allative	*kerekügerü
instrumental ²⁾	*kerekün
equative ²⁾	*kereküče
similative ²⁾	*kereküleyü
comitative ²⁾	*kerekülügü

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.

Descendants

Oghur:
- Chuvash:
Proto-Common Turkic: *kerekü

Oghuz:
- East Oghuz:
  - Turkmen: gerege
Karluk:
- Karakhanid: [script needed] (kerekü)
  - Uzbek: keraga
Kipchak:
- North Kipchak:
  - Bashkir: кирәгә (kirəgə)
- South Kipchak:
  - Karakalpak: кереге (kerege)
  - Kazakh: кереге (kerege)
  - Nogai: кереге (kerege)
- East Kipchak:
  - Kyrgyz: кереге (kerege)
  - Southern Altai: кереге (kerege)

References

Clauson, Gerard (1972) “”, in An Etymological Dictionary of pre-thirteenth-century Turkish, Oxford: Clarendon Press, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 744
Räsänen, Martti (1969) Versuch eines etymologischen Wörterbuchs der Türksprachen (in German), Helsinki: Suomalais-ugrilainen seura, page 255
Sevortjan, E. V. (1980) Etimologičeskij slovarʹ tjurkskix jazykov [Etymological Dictionary of Turkic Languages] (in Russian), volume 3, Moscow: Nauka, pages 24-25
Starostin, Sergei, Dybo, Anna, Mudrak, Oleg (2003) “*gErekü”, in Etymological dictionary of the Altaic languages (Handbuch der Orientalistik; VIII.8)‎^[1], Leiden, New York, Köln: E.J. Brill
Tenišev E. R., editor (1984–2006), Sravnitelʹno-istoričeskaja grammatika tjurkskix jazykov: [Comparative Historical Grammar of Turkic Languages:] (in Russian), Moscow: Nauka, page 503
Doerfer, Gerhard (1967) Türkische und mongolische Elemente im Neupersischen [Turkic and Mongolian Elements in New Persian] (Akademie der Wissenschaften und der Literatur: Veröffentlichungen der Orientalischen Kommission; 20)‎^[2] (in German), volume 3, Wiesbaden: Franz Steiner Verlag, page 592