Reconstruction:Proto-Turkic/čebir-

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.

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*čebir-

1. to twist, turn

• Oghur:
  • Chuvash: ҫавӑр (śavăr)
• Common Turkic:

• ⇒ Proto-Turkic: *čebre
  • Oghur:
    • Chuvash: ҫавра (śavra)
  • Common Turkic:
    • Oghuz:
      • Old Anatolian Turkish:
        • Azerbaijani: çevrə
        • Ottoman Turkish:
          • Gagauz: çevrä
          • Turkish: çevre, çepeçevre
          • → Karaim: (civre)
      • Turkmen: çöwre
    • Kipchak:
      • Cuman-Kipchak: čoura, čop čoura
        • Karachay-Balkar: (çüyre, “contrariwise”)

• Clauson, Gerard (1972) “çevür-”, in An Etymological Dictionary of pre-thirteenth-century Turkish, Oxford: Clarendon Press, page 398
• Starostin, Sergei, Dybo, Anna, Mudrak, Oleg (2003) “*čebir-”, in Etymological dictionary of the Altaic languages (Handbuch der Orientalistik; VIII.8), Leiden, New York, Köln: E.J. Brill
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “çevre”, in Nişanyan Sözlük