*<span class="searchmatch">ărka</span> *<span class="searchmatch">ārka</span> Connected to <span class="searchmatch">Proto</span>-Mongolic *aru (“back, behind, North”), <span class="searchmatch">Proto</span>-Tungusic *arkan (“back”). Compared to <span class="searchmatch">Proto</span>-<span class="searchmatch">Turkic</span> *ār-t (“back, behind”)...
Reconstruction:<span class="searchmatch">Proto</span>-<span class="searchmatch">Turkic</span>/<span class="searchmatch">arka</span> (This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.) *<span class="searchmatch">ārka</span>- (Oghuz) to...
oneself, be numerous”), whence Old <span class="searchmatch">Turkic</span> [script needed] (<span class="searchmatch">arka</span>, “multitude, crowd”). The term appears to be related to <span class="searchmatch">Proto</span>-Mongolic *arbaï (“barley”) as...