Reconstruction:Proto-Turkic/īŕte-

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.

• *īrte-

From *īŕ (“trace”).

*īŕte-

1. (transitive) to search, seek, pursue

• *īŕte-k
• *īŕte-t-
• *īŕte-n-
• *īŕte-l-

• *īŕ

• Common Turkic: *īzte- ~ *īzde-
  • Old Turkic:
    • Old Uyghur: (/⁠iste-⁠/), (/⁠izde-⁠/)
  • Karakhanid: اِسْتاماكْ (istēmēk)
  • Khorezmian Turkic: (iste-)
• Kipchak
  • Kipchak: (izde-)
  • North Kipchak
    • Bashkir: эҙлә- (eźlə-), (Eastern) Bashkir: эҙҙә- (eźźə-)
    • Tatar: эзләргә (ezlärgä)
  • South Kipchak
    • Kipchak-Nogai
      • Kazakh: іздеу (ızdeu)
    • Kyrgyz-Kipchak
      • Kyrgyz: изде- (izde-)
      • Southern Altai: исте- (iste-)
• Karluk:
  • Chagatai: (iste-)
    • Uzbek: istamoq
  • Uyghur: ئىزدىمەك (izdimek)
• Arghu:
  • Khalaj: hişəmək
• Oghuz:
  • Azerbaijani: istəmək
  • Ottoman Turkish: استمك (istemek)
    • Turkish: istemek
  • Turkmen: islemek
• Siberian:
  • Yakut: ирдээ (irdee)

• Clauson, Gerard (1972) “iste:-”, in An Etymological Dictionary of pre-thirteenth-century Turkish, Oxford: Clarendon Press, page 243
• Starostin, Sergei, Dybo, Anna, Mudrak, Oleg (2003) “*īŕ / *ɨ̄ŕ”, in Etymological dictionary of the Altaic languages (Handbuch der Orientalistik; VIII.8), Leiden, New York, Köln: E.J. Brill