Reconstruction:Proto-Turkic/tepe

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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

A variant *töpü formed at a very early date due to the vowels being rounded as a result of the neighboring labial consonant *p.

Noun

*tepe

  1. hill, top
  2. (anatomy) top of head

Declension

Declension of *tepe
singular 3)
nominative *tepe
accusative *tepeg, *tepeni1)
genitive *tepeniŋ
dative *tepeke
locative *tepede
ablative *tepeden
allative *tepegerü
instrumental 2) *tepen
equative 2) *tepeče
similative 2) *tepeleyü
comitative 2) *tepeligü
1) Originally used only in pronominal declension.
2) The original instrumental, equative, similative, and comitative cases have fallen into disuse in many modern Turkic languages.
3) Plurality in Proto-Turkic is disputed. See also the notes on the Proto-Turkic/Locative-ablative case and plurality page on Wikibooks.

Descendants

  • Oghur: *töpe/tüpe
    • Chuvash: тӳпе (tüp̬e, sky; head)
    • Chuvash: тĕпек (tĕpek, bangs)
  • Common Turkic:

References

  1. ^ Doerfer, Gerhard (1965) Türkische und mongolische Elemente im Neupersischen (Akademie der Wissenschaften und der Literatur: Veröffentlichungen der Orientalischen Kommission; 19)‎ (in German), volume II, Wiesbaden: Franz Steiner Verlag, § 872, pages 450-452
  • Clauson, Gerard (1972) “”, in An Etymological Dictionary of pre-thirteenth-century Turkish, Oxford: Clarendon Press, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 436
  • Eren, Hasan (1999) “tepe”, in Türk Dilinin Etimolojik Sözlüğü (in Turkish), Ankara: Bizim Büro Basım Evi, page 402
  • Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “tepe”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
  • Räsänen, Martti (1969) Versuch eines etymologischen Wörterbuchs der Türksprachen (in German), Helsinki: Suomalais-ugrilainen seura, pages 494, 505
  • Sevortjan, E. V. (1980) Etimologičeskij slovarʹ tjurkskix jazykov (in Russian), volume 3, Moscow: Nauka, pages 197-199
  • Starostin, Sergei, Dybo, Anna, Mudrak, Oleg (2003) “*tepö/ *tepü”, in Etymological dictionary of the Altaic languages (Handbuch der Orientalistik; VIII.8)‎, Leiden, New York, Köln: E.J. Brill
  • Tenišev E. R., editor (1984–2006), Sravnitelʹno-istoričeskaja grammatika tjurkskix jazykov: (in Russian), Moscow: Nauka, page 201