Reconstruction:Proto-Turkic/eme

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Proto-Turkic

Etymology

Räsänen compares Proto-Mongolic *eme, Proto-Uralic *emä, Korean 암 (am), Proto-Tungusic *eme. However, Altaic comparisons are widely disctedited and these words are likely not related by inheritance.

Noun

*eme

  1. woman

Descendants

  • Oghur:
  • Proto-Common Turkic:
  • Oghuz:
    • Ottoman Turkish: (hapax legomenon) امه (eme, “concubine”)
      • Turkish: (dialectal) eme (“aunt”)
    • >? Salar: ama
  • Kipchak:
    • Kyrgyz: эме (eme, “old woman”)
  • Karluk
    • >? Karakhanid: (Tibetan) اُما (ʾumʾ /⁠öme, uma, oma?⁠/, “mother”)

References

  1. ^ Räsänen, Martti (1969) “emä”, in Versuch eines etymologischen Wörterbuchs der Türksprachen (in German), Helsinki: Suomalais-ugrilainen seura, page 42
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