Reconstruction:Proto-Turkic/-inči

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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

preceding vowel
A / Ï E / I O / U Ö / Ü
*-ïnčï *-inči *-unču *-ünčü

Etymology

The second vowel of the suffix seems to appear after the medieval era. For an unknown reason, the word *ẹk(k)inti (“second”) has an exclusive variant *-inti, however according to Erdal it may be a seperate suffix.[1]

Has been compared to Manchu ᠊ᠴᡳ (-ci). [2]

Suffix

*-inči or *-inč

  1. Forms ordinals of numerals
    ‎*bīr (“one”) + ‎*-inči → ‎*bīrinči (“first”)

Derived terms

Proto-Turkic terms suffixed with *-inči
  • *-rer (“suffix creating distributive of numbers”)
  • *-egü (“suffix creating collective of numbers”)

Descendants

  • Oghur:
    • Bulgar: -ش (-şi), (-ş)
  • ⇒ Common Turkic: *-m-inči
  • Common Turkic: *-inči

References

  1. ^ Erdal, Marcel (2004) A Grammar of Old Turkic (Handbook of Oriental Studies. Section 8 Uralic & Central Asian Studies; 3), Brill Academic Publishers, →ISBN, page 223
  2. ^ Yamazaki, Masato (1991) "On the Ordinal Suffixes of Altaic Languages", Tohoku University: Department of Japanese Studies, pages 132-144
  • Clauson, Gerard (1972) “”, in An Etymological Dictionary of pre-thirteenth-century Turkish, Oxford: Clarendon Press, page xli
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