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EDAL reconstructs *kübeč in order to connect with Proto-Tungusic*gǖb-(“to fume”), Korean굽다(gupda, “to bake”) and Japanese香る(kaoru, “to smell good”) under the disputed Altaic theory, however this form is phonologically impossible as otherwise the historical forms, which EDAL does not include, küδeč and küzeč would be inexplicable.
Nişanyan suggests a derivation *kǖd-(“to wait”) + *-geč, this is phonologically improbable as the earliest instance should've been *küδgüč ~ *küzgüč.
Clauson instead searches for a foreign origin, possibly from Iranic, with the possible addition of *-č(“diminutive suffix”) (note however that said suffix is usually reserved for kinship terms)[1]. Compare Khotanesekūysa-(“pot, jar”) and Persianکوزه(kuze, “earthen bottle”) (whence Chagataiکوزه(küze), Turkmenküýze etc.) from Proto-Indo-European*kog- ~ *keg- ~ *keng-(“peg, hook; claw”) or *kew(H)- ("to bend").[2][3]
1) Originally only in pronominal declension. 2) The original instrumental, equative, similative & comitative cases have fallen into disuse in many modern Turkic languages. 3) Plurality is disputed in Proto-Turkic. See also the notes on the Proto-Turkic/Locative-ablative case and plurality page in Wikibooks.
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