Reconstruction:Proto-Turkic/u-

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.

*u-

1. (transitive) to be able, be capable

• *u-gan (present participle)
  • Karakhanid: اُغَنْ (uɣan, “having power over all things”)
    • → Turkish: oğan
  • Khorezmian Turkic: (uɣan)
  • Mamluk-Kipchak: (uɣan)
  • Chagatai: (uqan), (uɣan)
• *u-ma- (negation)
  • Old Turkic
    • Orkhon: 𐰆𐰢𐰀 (uma-)
    • Old Uyghur: ʾwmʾ (uma-)
  • Oghuz
    • Turkish: -(y)ama- (< *-(y)u uma-)
• *u-ŕ (“master, expert”)

• Old Turkic
  • Old Turkic: 𐰆 (u-)
  • Old Uyghur: ʾw (u-)
• Siberian
  • Yakut: уй (uy)

• Clauson, Gerard (1972) “u-”, in An Etymological Dictionary of pre-thirteenth-century Turkish, Oxford: Clarendon Press, page 2
• Starostin, Sergei, Dybo, Anna, Mudrak, Oleg (2003) “*ŋūja”, in Etymological dictionary of the Altaic languages (Handbuch der Orientalistik; VIII.8), Leiden, New York, Köln: E.J. Brill