Reconstruction:Proto-Turkic/(y)ip-

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.

Uncertain, possibly from a Pre-Turkic substrate language.

Clauson regards *yipin to be the original form and considers it a foreign borrowing with *-g- being added on to Turkify the word.

*(y)ip-

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

• Karluk:
  • Karakhanid: یِپْگِنْ (yipkin), یِپْگِلْ (yipkil), یِپِنْ (yipin)
    • Chagatai: ایپكن (épgin, ipgin, “black fabric”)
• Kipchak: ایپكن (ipkin)
  • West Kipchak:
    • Karaim: ipkin
  • →? Chuvash: йӗпкӗн (jĕpkĕn, “dense (of colors)”)
• Siberian:
  • Old Turkic:
    • Old Uyghur: 𐽶𐽶𐽼𐽷𐽶𐽺 (yipgin, yépgin, “purple, violet, dark red”), 𐽶𐽶𐽼𐽳𐽺 (yipün)
  • South Siberian:
    • Sayan Turkic:
      • Tuvan: өкпең (ökpeñ)

• Clauson, Gerard (1972) “yipgil/yipgin”, in An Etymological Dictionary of pre-thirteenth-century Turkish, Oxford: Clarendon Press, →ISBN, →OCLC, 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