Reconstruction:Proto-Turkic/bạk-

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

Alternative reconstructions

*bak-

Verb

*bạk-

(intransitive) to look; to watch

Derived terms

Descendants

Oghur:
- Chuvash: пӑх (păh)
Common Turkic:

Arghu:
- Khalaj: vaqmaq^[1]
Oghuz:
- Old Anatolian Turkish:
  - Azerbaijani: baxmaq
  - Ottoman Turkish: باقمق (baqmaq), باقماق (bakmak), بقمق (bakmak), بقماق (bakmak)
    - Gagauz: bakmaa
    - Turkish: bakmak
- Salar: vaq
- Turkmen: bakmak
Kipchak:
- Khorezmian Turkic: بقماق (baqmaq)
- Kipchak: (baq-)
- Mamluk-Kipchak: (baq-)
- West Kipchak:
  - Crimean Tatar: baqmaq
- North Kipchak:
  - Bashkir: бағыу (bağıw)
  - Tatar: багарга (bağarga)
- South Kipchak:
  - Caspian:
    - Kazakh: бағу (bağu)
    - Nogai бакув (bakuv)
  - Kyrgyz-Kipchak:
    - Kyrgyz: багуу (baguu)
    - Southern Altai: багар (bagar)
Karluk:
- Karakhanid: بَقْماقْ (baqmāq)
  - Chagatai: (baqmaq)
    - Uzbek: boqmoq
    - Uyghur: باقماق (baqmaq)
Siberian:
- North Siberian:
  - Dolgan: бык (bïk)
  - Yakut: бык (bık)
- South Siberian:
  - Sayan Turkic:
    - Tuvan бакылар (bakılar)
  - Yenisei Turkic:
    - Khakas: пағарға (pağarğa)

References

^ Robbeets, Martin, Alexander Savelyev, The Oxford Guide to the Transeurasian Languages, page 111.

Starostin, Sergei, Dybo, Anna, Mudrak, Oleg (2003) “*bằka”, in Etymological dictionary of the Altaic languages (Handbuch der Orientalistik; VIII.8), Leiden, New York, Köln: E.J. Brill
Clauson, Gerard (1972) “bak-”, in An Etymological Dictionary of pre-thirteenth-century Turkish, Oxford: Clarendon Press, page 311

[1] Robbeets, Martin, Alexander Savelyev, The Oxford Guide to the Transeurasian Languages, page 111.

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