Reconstruction:Proto-Turkic/küreš-

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.

Uncertain, with multiple possibilities:

• Nişanyan derives it from a hypothetical *küre- "to show strength", derived from *kür (“courageous, bold, dense, thick”).
• Erdal suggests a derivation from *küre- (“to desert, make oneself independent”) which he ultimately derives from *kür (“courageous, bold, dense, thick”).
• Clauson derives it from *küri- ~ *küre- (“to shovel”).
• Wilkens compares with Khotanese ggūrāsa- (“quarrel, dispute”)^[1] but does not elaborate.
• EDAL reconstructs *gerüĺ- based on *keriš- (“to quarrel”), however this is considered a seperate word derived from *ker- (“to stretch”).^[2][3]

*küreš-

(Common Turkic, reciprocal) to wrestle

• *küreš (“wrestling”)

• Common Turkic:

• Clauson, Gerard (1972) “küreş-”, in An Etymological Dictionary of pre-thirteenth-century Turkish, Oxford: Clarendon Press, pages 747-748
• Erdal, Marcel (1991) Old Turkic Word Formation‎, volume II, Otto Harrassowitz, →ISBN, page 563
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “güreşmek”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Räsänen, Martti (1969) Versuch eines etymologischen Wörterbuchs der Türksprachen (in German), Helsinki: Suomalais-ugrilainen seura, page 310
• Starostin, Sergei, Dybo, Anna, Mudrak, Oleg (2003) “*gErüĺ-”, in Etymological dictionary of the Altaic languages (Handbuch der Orientalistik; VIII.8), Leiden, New York, Köln: E.J. Brill
• Wilkens, Jens (2021) Handworterbuch des Altuigurischen, Göttingen: Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Göttingen, page 444