Reconstruction:Proto-Turkic/öl-

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

Alternative reconstructions

*höl-

Verb

*öl-

(intransitive) to die, to pass away

Derived terms

*öl-tür- (“to kill”)
*öl-üm (“death”)

Descendants

Oghur:
- Bulgar: وَل (vel)
  - Chuvash: вил (vil)

Arghu:
- Khalaj: hölmək
Oghuz:
- Old Anatolian Turkish:
  - Azerbaijani: ölmək
    - → Khalaj: ölmək
  - Ottoman Turkish: اولمك
    - Gagauz: yölmää
    - Turkish: ölmek
- Salar: ülgüsi
- Turkmen: ölmek
Karluk:
- Uzbek: oʻlmoq
- Uyghur: ئۆلمەك (ölmek)
Kipchak:
- North Kipchak:
  - Bashkir: үлеү (ülew)
  - Tatar: үләргә (ülärgä)
- West Kipchak:
  - Crimean Tatar: ölmek
  - Kumyk: оьлмек (ölmek)
  - Karaim: (oĺ-)
- East Kipchak:
  - Kyrgyz: өлүү (ölüü)
  - Southern Altai: ӧл- (öl-)
- South Kipchak:
  - Karakalpak: (öl-)
  - Kazakh: өлу (ölu)
  - Nogai: оьлуьв (ölüv)
Siberian:
- Old Turkic: 𐰇𐰠 (öl)
- North Siberian
  - Dolgan: өл
  - Yakut: өл (öl)
- South Siberian:
  - Sayan:
    - Tofa: (öl-)
    - Tuvan: өлүр (ölür)
  - Yenisei:
    - Shor: öл
    - Khakas: öлерге (ölerge)
    - Western Yugur: (jül-)
→? Hungarian: öl (“to kill”)

References

Starostin, Sergei, Dybo, Anna, Mudrak, Oleg (2003) “*öl-”, in Etymological dictionary of the Altaic languages (Handbuch der Orientalistik; VIII.8)‎, Leiden, New York, Köln: E.J. Brill
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