Reconstruction:Proto-Turkic/sǖčig

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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

Etymology

From *sǖči- (to become sweet, sweeten) +‎ *-g. In several Turkic languages; such as Old Uyghur and Ottoman Turkish, the word has also another meaning: “wine”. According to Räsänen and Erdal, it is from *sǖt (milk) +‎ *-sig; compare Persian شیرین (širin) for the semantic development from “milk” to “sweet”.

Adjective

*sǖčig

  1. sweet
    Synonym: *tātlïg
    Antonym: *āčïg
    • 735, Bilge Kağan, (Please provide the book title or journal name):
      𐱃𐰉𐰍𐰲: 𐰉𐰆𐰑𐰣: 𐰽𐰉𐰃: 𐰾𐰇𐰲𐰃𐰏: 𐰍𐰃𐰾𐰃: 𐰘𐰃𐰢𐱁𐰴: 𐰼𐰢𐰾
      t¹b¹ǧč: b¹ud¹n¹: s¹b¹i: s²üčig: ǧis²i: y²imšq: r²ms²
      (please add an English translation of this quotation)

Noun

*sǖčig

  1. sweet

Declension

See also

Descendants

  • Oghur:
    • Volga Bulgar: سجو (sü(ü)çüw)
  • Common Turkic:

References

  • Clauson, Gerard (1972) “”, in An Etymological Dictionary of pre-thirteenth-century Turkish, Oxford: Clarendon Press, pages 795, 796-797
  • Erdal, Marcel (1991). Old Turkic Word Formation: A Functional Approach to the Lexicon. Otto Harrassowitz Verlag, page: 72, 204, 534-535, ISBN:978-3-447-03084-7.
  • Starostin, Sergei, Dybo, Anna, Mudrak, Oleg (2003) “*sǖči-”, in Etymological dictionary of the Altaic languages (Handbuch der Orientalistik; VIII.8)‎, Leiden, New York, Köln: E.J. Brill