Reconstruction:Proto-Turkic/or-

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.

*or-

1. unattested

• Proto-Turkic: *or-du, *or-da (“place; palace; lair, den; place of staying (of the army, ruler etc.); army”)
• Proto-Turkic: *or-tu, *or-ta (“middle”)
• Proto-Turkic: *or-un (“place”)
  • Proto-Turkic: *or(u)n-a- (“to reserve a place”)
    • Proto-Turkic: *orna-ĺč- (“to settle down”)

*or-

2. (transitive) to mow, reap

• Proto-Turkic: *or-gak (“sickle”)
• Oghur:
  • Chuvash: выр (vyr)
• Common Turkic:
  • Oghuz:
    • Old Anatolian Turkish:
      • Ottoman Turkish: اورامق (oramak)
    • Turkmen: ormak
    • Salar: or
  • Karluk:
    • Karakhanid: (or-)
  • Kipchak:
    • South Kipchak:
      • Caspian:
        • Kazakh: ору (oru)
      • Kyrgyz-Kipchak:
        • Southern Altai: ор- (or-, “to cut, now, reap”)

• Starostin, Sergei, Dybo, Anna, Mudrak, Oleg (2003) “*or”, in Etymological dictionary of the Altaic languages (Handbuch der Orientalistik; VIII.8), Leiden, New York, Köln: E.J. Brill