Reconstruction:Proto-Turkic/bẹńi

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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

Alternative forms

Etymology

A root with puzzling reflexes, according to Clauson. Räsänen compares this reconstruction with Old Uyghur (mäŋi, “joy, luck”) and proposes a relation with Hungarian fej, fő, Finnish pää (both inherited from Proto-Uralic *päŋe) and Mongolian (heki). Eren (1999)[1], however, calls this comparison into doubt.

Altaicists, on the other hand, reconstruct this proto-form as *beyŋi, which is then compared to Mongolian манлай (manlaj, “forehead”) and Japanese 耳 (mimi, “ear”).

Noun

*bẹńi

  1. brain

Descendants

  • Oghur:
    • Chuvash: миме (mime)
  • Common Turkic:
    • → Middle Mongol: (miyi)
  • Arghu: *men
    • Khalaj: (mẹi̯n)
  • Oghuz: *beyni
  • Karluk:
  • Kipchak: *meyi
  • Siberian:
    • Old Turkic: (meyi)
    • North Siberian:
    • South Siberian:

References

  1. ^ Eren, Hasan (1999) “Proto-Turkic/bẹńi”, in Türk Dilinin Etimolojik Sözlüğü [Etymological Dictionary of the Turkish Language] (in Turkish), Ankara: Bizim Büro Basım Evi, page 49
  2. ^ al-Kashgarî, Mahmud (1072–1074) Besim Atalay, transl., Divanü Lûgat-it-Türk Tercümesi [Translation of the “Compendium of the languages of the Turks”] (Türk Dil Kurumu Yayınları; 521) (in Turkish), 1985 edition, volume II, Ankara: Türk Tarih Kurmu Basımevi, published 1939–1943, page 299
  • Clauson, Gerard (1972) “”, in An Etymological Dictionary of pre-thirteenth-century Turkish, Oxford: Clarendon Press, page 348
  • Räsänen, Martti (1969) Versuch eines etymologischen Wörterbuchs der Türksprachen (in German), Helsinki: Suomalais-ugrilainen seura, pages 70, 334
  • Starostin, Sergei, Dybo, Anna, Mudrak, Oleg (2003) Etymological dictionary of the Altaic languages (Handbuch der Orientalistik; VIII.8)‎, Leiden, New York, Köln: E.J. Brill
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