Reconstruction:Proto-Turkic/ukruk

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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

Doerfer suggests three possibilities:

  1. Related to *uruk, however Clauson doesn't connect the two on the basis of semantics and morphology.
  2. A compound *ok (arrow) +‎ *uruk (rope).
  3. A diminutive from *okur ~ *ukur based on Yakut оҕуур (oğuur, lasso).

Noun

*ukruk

  1. lasso, lasso pole

Declension

Descendants

  • Common Turkic:
  • Oghuz:
    • East Oghuz:
      • Turkmen: ukuruk
  • Karluk:
  • Kipchak:
  • Siberian:
  • Proto-Mongolic: *uxurga (lasso pole)

References

  • Clauson, Gerard (1972) “”, in An Etymological Dictionary of pre-thirteenth-century Turkish, Oxford: Clarendon Press, page 360
  • Doerfer, Gerhard (1965) Türkische und mongolische Elemente im Neupersischen [Turkic and Mongolian Elements in New Persian] (Akademie der Wissenschaften und der Literatur: Veröffentlichungen der Orientalischen Kommission; 19)‎ (in German), volume II, Wiesbaden: Franz Steiner Verlag, pages 86-87
  • Sevortjan, E. V. (1974) Etimologičeskij slovarʹ tjurkskix jazykov [Etymological Dictionary of Turkic Languages] (in Russian), volume 1, Moscow: Nauka, pages 585-586
  • Starostin, Sergei, Dybo, Anna, Mudrak, Oleg (2003) “*ukruk”, in Etymological dictionary of the Altaic languages (Handbuch der Orientalistik; VIII.8)‎, Leiden, New York, Köln: E.J. Brill