Reconstruction:Proto-Turkic/(y)ip-

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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

Uncertain, historically multiple conflicting forms exist; *yipin, *yipgin & *yipgil. Clauson regards *yipin to be the original form and considers it a foreign borrowing with *-g- being added on to Turkify the word.

Adjective

*(y)ip-

  1. (Common Turkic) purple, violet, dark red

Descendants

  • Karluk:
    • Karakhanid: (yipin, yipkil, yipkin)
      • Chagatai: (epgin, black fabric), (ipgin, black fabric)
  • Kipchak: (ipkin)
    • West Kipchak:
    • ? Chuvash: йӗпкӗн (jĕpkĕn, dense (of colors))
  • Siberian:
    • Old Turkic:
      • Old Uyghur: (yipin), (yipün), (yipkin), (yipgin)
    • South Siberian:

See also

Colors in Proto-Turkic · *boduglar, *bodugsāyïn (layout · text)
     *āk, *ürüŋ      *boŕ, *sūr, *kuba, *čāl, *oń      *kara
             *kïŕïl; *āl              *koŋur, *yạgïŕ              *siarïg, *yẹgren
                          *yāĺïl             
                          *kȫk             
                          *(y)ip-             

References

  • Clauson, Gerard (1972) “yipgil/yipgin”, in An Etymological Dictionary of pre-thirteenth-century Turkish, Oxford: Clarendon Press, pages 875-876
  • Starostin, Sergei, Dybo, Anna, Mudrak, Oleg (2003) “*(j)ip-”, in Etymological dictionary of the Altaic languages (Handbuch der Orientalistik; VIII.8)‎, Leiden, New York, Köln: E.J. Brill